Daniel Hussey

I ❤️ engineering biology to improve health & environment +
businesses that realize the impact of science. 🤘@UTDiscoveries
🦑@tandem_repeat 🌱@Valley_DAO

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@SGRodriques If healthy human volunteers were the limiting factor, would you pay them to participate (assuming it was legal)?

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@arjunrajlab 😂

[Nick Desnoyer @NickDesnoyer]

Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬

As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever retweets this!

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies.

They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or resources to fight.

Why ? By putting financial pressures on physicians and pharmacies, it makes them more likely to sell their businesses to them , close their doors, or refer the business to their captive pharmacy or provider. All benefitting the biggest insurance companies

We need to ditch the concept of "claims" and make every delivery of medications or care as a billable event that must, by law, be paid on a timely basis , with interest charges for any delays. If the physician or pharmacy doesn't deliver , the carrier has plenty of legal options already. As does the patient.

This is not an efficient market. This is the big guy abusing the little guy. It needs to change to better the care we get in this country

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@UTAustin Little known fact: UT Austin also has its own power plant.

All the pieces are coming together

https://t.co/ZLzD03Qtjt

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@coinbase Everything in Austin. Even the Chili's is amazing

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@firstadopter @BG2Pod Elon got what he originally wanted. OpenAI is a counterweight to Google. Because competition, Gemini and ChatGPT are amazing products for the price. Open sourcing OpenAI now would give regular people a worse experience. Now investors fund it instead of a philanthropist.

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Real life scene from an Adam Sandler movie at my son's middle school

https://t.co/1sHBMBJSRX

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Injury lawyers are competing with the lottery now

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Shout out to @vuoriclothing

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Half these "green" clothing brands out there sell you a plastic bag with a tag made of recycled paper and call it eco friendly

[Xoxo @chicfryrice]

I don’t get why there isn’t some yearly blood test we can do to see if we have cancer

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@helium I do!

[Paul Kohlhaas bio/acc @paulkhls]

Fun fact: @BioProtocol made +$4m in liquidity fees the past weeks 🪻

Most see $BIO as a "DeSci" launchpad and forget we manage all liquidity pools for BioDAOs & optimise for POL + AUM

We're lining up integrations with leading DeFi protocols, including a lending market for $BIO

[Albert 🌍 @thealbertanis]

Colossal Biosciences and @BenLamm are single-handedly bringing synthetic biology to the mainstream, and not any mainstream outlet, but outlets usually associated with 'right-wing', no seed-oil, republican listeners who are known to be anti-GMO.

This group is known to be the main counter-force and vocal in the widespread adoption of GM products and solutions...

and I don't think we're giving Ben and his entourage enough credit for it.

Both Ben and his co-founder Beth Shapiro @bonesandbugs , attended Joe Rogan within a span of just 2 months, accumulating around 8m listens across the different platforms! This is more views than all synthetic biology videos on youtube.

@IOHK_Charles Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum and investor in Ben's companies, attended recently the Shawn Ryan podcast discussing

bioluminescent plants and environmental cleanup using biology. Let me remind you that Shawn Ryan frequently brings on military veterans, intelligence operatives, and whistleblowers. His audience is deeply skeptical of government narratives and corporate agendas.

Yet here's Charles, talking about GMOs to an audience that typically views GMOs as part of a globalist plot to control the food supply bla bla bla... and being well received.

Why I'm bringing it up is because despite decades of attempts at convincing and breaking into this audience group, the synbio industry has failed over and over again.

The industry should be studying this playbook. Instead of fighting and feeding the endless culture wars, Colossal is reframing the entire conversation.

Just some thoughts.

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

It seems obvious to me that the dire wolf thing could never have happened in academia or traditional biopharma

I wonder if we're seeing the emergence of a new kind of thing: well-funded biotech R&D that lives outside of the traditional incentives and institutional gatekeepers

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

@Nature And how much of that money does Springer pocket?

Offer discounted or no publishing or subscription fees in solidarity with all of the scientists who are going through this freeze so that grant monies go toward research

Put your money where your mouth is 💰💰

[Molecule @Molecule_sci]

We're running an 8-week DeSci Bootcamp to up-skill talented people. We answered some of your most common questions!

Applications will be open until the 24th of February.

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@ATXDAO 🧪🧬🌱

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DARPA is a heavyweight champ at supporting of world-changing tech (think: the internet, GPS, stealth, & more). DARPA is great at long-term bets that turn early ideas into revolutionary industries.

The convergence of engineering and biology is exactly where DARPA should focus. Lots of opportunities in this area to change the next 50+ years by funding research happening right now.

DARPA's mission is to create technical surprise for U.S. national security. Biology is a world of wonders. Think self replicating materials or devices that use biochemical communication.

A big area is materials that incorporate living systems or proteins. There are few examples of these right now, but they can be as ubiquitous as smart phones in a few decades. Examples include hyper-responsive composites, materials that repair themselves, responsive materials that produce signals (light, electrical, scent), and tunable metamaterials. Everything from furniture, clothing, food containers, and construction materials can be revolutionized by mixing biology with existing materials.

DARPA can also catalyze a biotech revolution in manufacturing. Boom flipped what was thought as possible supersonic travel by embracing modern tech. The way we make chemicals and materials could be completely reimagined by harnessing readily available biotech and designing factories from the ground up. This will take more than re-applying pharma fermentation to industrial scale. With DARPA's long-term support, we could have decentralized, efficient, and modular factories that outcompete and outproduce the current systems.

Our enemies might come after our natural resources. DARPA can fund innovations that can restore natural environments and invigorate depleted ecosystems. Emerging biotech can remove toxins and microplastics from the environment, help plants better utilize nutrients, restore soil, harvest metals from waste, and capture usable resources like water from the air.