Jake Wintermute
@synbio1
Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist foundrytheory.substack.com stay humble biodesigners
Can anyone who played CELLQuest on the original Becton Dickinson tell me if it was fun? Is it worth trying to vibe code an emulator for some retro gaming?
I look forward to the day when every lab instrument runs linux and the entire UI is just an MCP for my agents
If weeds can overgrow a fake lawn then it stands to reason that you could develop a strain of grass that would functionally replace the fake lawn except be real
Bioproduct idea gluten-free damp dusters for the market of people with celiac disease who want to eat their scrub daddies
I am literally begging you to start a biotech company, literally any biotech company, and incorporate slop maximalism into your branding I am in love with biotech slop maximalism. I will do free work for you. I will shill whatever bioproduct or AI model thing you sell.
1) Apparently snails can eat graffiti 2) Apparently snails actively seek out graffiti to eat 3) ??? 4) Start a biotech company that sells snails for graffiti removal
I will personally award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the first person who engineers a peptide that can do the worm
We know that AI increases the value of human biological data. But by how much? Super interesting to see a specific class of human biological data assigned a spot price in a real market event
16 years ago I blew off my thesis research for one day to make a YouTube video about plasmids www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... Today I'm in the plasmid sequencing tutorials for Plasmidsaurus www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeC... The trick to having a fun career in science is say yes to random fun things
Me when I click on an in-line citation in an online article and it takes me to the references section of the same article instead of opening the new article in a new tab
We’re so blessed that evolution made the shape of eggs be the literal only possible shape for eggs that isn’t deeply unsettling
Biotech startups 0.0003 nanoseconds after the lab team ships a breakthrough drug to clinical trials
The funniest version of the future is the one where we invent ASI only to watch it immediately start culturing brain cells to invent ASSI www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Me and everyone who keeps calling it Pichia pastoris holding out against the attempt to rename it Komagataella phaffii
The good version of the future includes a decentralized bioeconomy supporting lots of good green-collar jobs in bioproducts and bioservices Sourdough microbakeries hint at what that future might look like www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/d...
The fancy popcorn from the organic market is bad at popping compared to the cheap popcorn from the normal grocery store and I’m tired of pretending it’s not