Journal

Research updates, explainers, community reflections, and the occasional dispatch from the rare disease frontier.

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Lattice Protocol

How I Built a Personal Brand Content Engine with aDNA

I needed a system that could produce on-brand content across six platforms without losing my voice. So I built one — using the same knowledge architecture I use for federated science.

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Education

The Invisible Web Under Your Feet

A single gram of soil contains tens of thousands of microbial species. We're putting the tools to map them in the hands of high school students.

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Education

What DeepChem Taught Me About Mentorship

Over multiple Google Summer of Code cycles, I mentored more than a dozen PhD and postdoc fellows on projects from neural ODEs to molecular property prediction. Here's what I got wrong first.

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Rare Disease

Why I Still Don't Know What Causes My Disease

After years of testing, imaging, and specialist visits, the honest answer is still 'we don't know.' Here's why that matters — and why it's not the end of the story.

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Community

Church for the Curious

Every Sunday at The KINN in Venice Beach, we hold what I call Church for the Curious. No prerequisites. No credentials required. Just show up with a question.

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Education

Proteins Are Not What You Think They Are

You were taught that proteins are building blocks. They're actually self-folding electric motors, linguistic structures with syntax, and the most sophisticated nanotechnology ever produced.

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