Happy 4th — Thank a Rare Disease Patient
The enzymes digesting your Fourth-of-July cookout are winning rolls in a billion-year genetic dice game. Some people carry the rare rolls — here's why they belong at the table too.
Research updates, explainers, community reflections, and the occasional dispatch from the rare disease frontier.
The enzymes digesting your Fourth-of-July cookout are winning rolls in a billion-year genetic dice game. Some people carry the rare rolls — here's why they belong at the table too.
Before Lattice Protocol could work, someone had to answer an awkward question: how do you trust that a GPU you don't control actually ran your model? That answer became my first paper.
Not the sound of the waves — the genetic symphony of the thousands of organisms living inside a coral reef. The World Genome Symphony is being built to make biodiversity something you can hear.
When a teenager sequences the DNA in her school garden, who owns what she finds? Most platforms never really answer. The World Genome Academy is being built to answer it in the architecture itself.
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.
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.
Over multiple Google Summer of Code cycles, I mentored more than ten PhD and postdoc fellows on projects from neural ODEs to molecular property prediction. Here's what I got wrong first.
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.
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.
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.