Christina Agapakis (🥥/acc)
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Shoutout to this magical device that heats up mosquito bites really hot and denatures the proteins that make them itchy
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We’ve been calling it the German Spoon because my sister in law learned about the technique from someone she met from Germany that uses the spoon method too! The machine is more portable and precise 😝
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Also double shoutout because it made me google proteins that make mosquito bites itchy and I learned that the mechanism of the reaction remains poorly understood
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@biodanchik
It’s 3 or 6 seconds and hot enough to hurt but not leave a mark, probably ~65 Celsius but that’s a guess based on what I remember doing in lab to denature stuff 🫠
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Can’t help but be bummed out when I see people tweeting about how college is “over” and unnecessary and I think about the relatively minuscule amount of time in all of history that anyone who wasn’t the tiniest sliver of elite white men were even allowed to go to college
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I’ve made a terrible mistake. I told the kids not to drink the bath water and I called it “butt water” and now they won’t stop 1. drinking it and 2. saying butt water
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The almost four year old was saying she felt scared and couldn’t fall asleep, so I asked her to think about what makes her feel happy, like flowers or chocolate or puppies.
“No. The only thing that makes me happy is the moon.”
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All these biologists responding to Elon’s tweet like they’ve never met a physicist before
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@acekatana
Ann brought it back from Costa Rica where I think she learned about it from German backpackers so we’ve taken to calling it the German Spoon. I found it on Amazon and have been keeping it in my pocket this trip!
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What happens when biology becomes technology?
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FYI peeps are entirely soluble in phenol except for their eyes
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Stumbled on this paper and definitely did a double take at the publication date
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Some more creative spectacle for $DNA: our Times Square billboard and our deal toys, with the
@ginkgo
S4 filing encoded in DNA and encased in amber lucite!
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Got my hair cut today with a new stylist and when I told him I work at a genetic engineering company the first thing he asked me was if we could make tiny giraffes 🦒
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WHAT
Japan: Intercellular signal transduction during the assembly of slime mould cells • cAMP-sensitive fluorescent probes • signal is transmitted as a spiral wave within the group • amazing • via
@kotapub
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I’m so tired
A geneticist at Harvard Medical School is working on a dating app that matches users based on their DNA. The goal: to eliminate all genetic diseases. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.
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My first time seeing the bioengineered label in the wild!
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I’m compiling a public list of synbio efforts on COVID-19, please share anything I missed!
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I wish everyone could be as brave as my friend who went up to a table of 16 dudes in blue dress shirts tonight at a VIP conference dinner and asked “is this just for men? who planned this???”
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In case you need to see something cute, my five year old drew this polar bear at zoom school today
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The future of fashion is fungi 🍄
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Reading about strange natures in front of art about strange natures in the office where we make strange natures
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Any sufficiently advance polygenic risk score is indistinguishable from eugenics
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I'm sure everyone is loving the brand new but if you find yourself missing what was there before, please enjoy
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My children did not adequately appreciate this castle I made for them so I am posting it here for more likes
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Omg this is so embarrassing, scientists just can’t help themselves can they?
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Hi, I’m a genetic engineer! You may know me from my greatest hits including, “Yeah, like Jurassic Park,” “Capitalism is probably why you think GMOs are bad,” and “Let’s CRISPR it!”
Hi, I’m a climate scientist. You may know me from my greatest hits including, “No, it’s not a natural cycle,” “Yes, I know it’s been warmer before (and the only reason YOU know is because we scientists told you so),” and “Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t mean it’s true.”
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I know this is off brand but I just deadlifted more than my body weight for the first time and I am proud of myself 🤗💪🏋🏻♀️
#mombod
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Taste testing ice cream made with milk proteins produce by engineered yeast! Yum!
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“I think 10 years from now, we’ll look back at what’s happening today and feel that we grossly underestimated how our life and our world would change.”
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A+ photoshop job on the “female CEO” here lol
Opinion: Here are the nominees for best biopharma CEO of 2019. Vote for your favorite — and get ready for the nominees for worst, coming tomorrow.
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WHY DO TREES KEEP HAPPENING
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I got an ad on tiktok about how without oil and natural gas we wouldn't have all the products we love and I think it was supposed to make me appreciate fossil fuels but instead it just makes me want to make biology easier to engineer even more LFG (let's f*ing grow)
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You might have missed it among other news from DC in the past couple of days but the House just passed the Engineering Biology Research and Development Act of 2019! 🧬🦠🧫🔬
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Gus drew some “dinosaurs” and I turned them into Christmas ornaments
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Quarantine crafts! I made a dress out of old sheets
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Just taking selfies of my new haircut while the baby does the dishes
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Excited to be free of covid and celebrating the groundbreaking for
@Ginkgo
’s new building today
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I know I have extremely niche interests but this is like the Super Bowl for me
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Scientists: anecdotes aren’t data!!!
Also scientists: gender differences are fundamentally biological because my son likes trucks
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Biology Starts to Get a Technological Makeover
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Buying GMOs >>> Buying Vision Pros
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I remember vividly the two concepts that made me fall in love with synthetic biology: the idea that bio could shape technology to fight climate change and the idea that someday we could write poetry in DNA. Thinking about what is coming is making me fall in love all over again.
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Excited to share the call for proposals for this year's
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I wrote about the one question I get all the time—what is synthetic biology???— for
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The CDC recommends tricking your kids that this is a “pillow fight” so you can lie down for a while
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SO excited for the digital launch of ! 🌱🍌🐘👩🏾🔬🚀🧀🦠🧬
Today we are launching our new digital platform, , to continue to tell the unfolding story of synthetic biology 🌱We’re excited to bring you new digital content monthly.
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Seems like a good day to re-read “Is Science Racist?”
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SO EXCITED for our fifth⁉️ creative residency: MEANING. If DNA is the "code of life," what new perspectives can help us read, think, and make worlds with biology?
Apply before July 4:
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Quarantine parenting hack: never throw out your recycling
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POV I’m giving you a tour of Ginkgo and talking about something that smells stinky
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If anyone needs to feel better about their parenting (or needs to reality check plans about future children) we are in literal Italy and my children are eating plain pasta with ketchup on it
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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It’s true! I do believe these things
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@thisischristina
of
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believes in the tremendous power of biology to transform the way we make technology, and that science and technology are political, shaped by human needs, biases, and emotions.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
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I prefer to focus on how biology is *feeding* the world but ok
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So much biotech in the seaport the whole neighborhood smells like a batch of LB in the autoclave right now
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I think everything is going to be ok because a HS student just raised their hand during my talk to say “I believe science is a form of art”
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I was on a panel today at the MIT museum and my children were in the audience and very helpfully demonstrated my point about how biology isn’t controllable
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Has been great to see the all incredible things our community is doing in response to COVID-19 these past few days. If you’re working on diagnostics, therapeutics, or vaccines, please reach out!
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The inside of my purse after a walk with poppy
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Feels like it’s been a really long time since a science related article left me astonished in a good way
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Today is my five year anniversary of starting full time
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A very hearty “ok boomer” to the old guy in the front row during my presentation who rolled his eyes continuously (until he fell asleep) as I talked about feminism, art, and how we should maybe question the visions of the billionaire would-be space emperors!
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My first day back at the office, meeting teammates like
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