Farshad Murtada

CEO & Co-Founder @ SCRY Bio | Building the first molecular computing company. Running AI on DNA | PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering @UofT |

[Morph Labs @MorphLabs_]

We are MorphLabs.

Welcome to the future of prosthetic control and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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Also yes, moving a biotech company is exactly as chaotic as it sounds.

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Everyone has to start somewhere.

SCRY Bio started in an apartment lab.

This week, we packed it up and moved into our first real lab space.

Still scrappy. Still chaotic. Still building DNA computers.

Apartment lab era → real lab era 🧬

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UFC is such a crazy sport! @Justin_Gaethje did the impossible and became the lightweight champion 🏆Insane fighter with so much heart. Felt like I was watching a Rocky movie.

#UFCWhiteHouse #ufc

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@AdamDraper That game was wild. I was going to stop watching at some point, but so glad I didn’t . There’s nothing better than watching a crazy comeback!

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@sytses Full post here: https://t.co/WRhdEOrKaH

Huge thanks to @sytses for sharing his story so openly.

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A founder got cancer. Did everything. It came back. His doctors told him he was out of options.

So he went "founder mode" on his own cancer.
Today he's in remission.

What I learned watching Sid Sijbrandij's story

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@AdamDraper This era is gonna be fricking insane!!!

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@RyanBethencourt Nice! What about omega 3s and what dose magnetism and vitamin d do you do ?

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Late to this, but had to reshare. Akash was one of the first people I talked to when I was thinking about starting my own company, so it's super awesome to see the work taking off. Honestly, before hearing about Dognosis I had no idea cancer-sniffing dogs were a thing. Wild to see them land in the Journal of Clinical Oncology with 90%+ sensitivity across seven cancer groups from a 10-minute breath sample.

Dogs really do have superpowers.

[dognosis @dognosis]

Our canine-powered bayesian model achieved 90%+ sensitivity and specificity (AUC of 0.962) in a n=1502 trial, with sensitivity stable across cancer types and at Stage 1/2. Largest study of its kind published today in the world's leading cancer journal - JCO

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there's no @Cadence for molecular computing.
so we built our own.

when my co-founders and I started SCRY Bio, we realized the tools for designing DNA computers barely exist. the academic ones take minutes to hours just to check if two strands will accidentally stick together. not great when you're trying to wire a neural network out of DNA.

so we started building SURVEIL, our internal design stack.

today we're putting the first piece online. an interactive viewer where you can click through real DNA and RNA structures and see how they fold. it's a small slice of what we use internally every day, but it's the foundation for where we're taking this.

a full design environment for molecular computing. a molecular circuit board.

go play with it: https://t.co/MWM3fGYXqI

#DNA #Biotech #SynBio #DeepTech #Computing #Startups

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@AdamDraper Boost bio camp trip to go watch spiderman brand new day and afterwards we all go and make web fluid.

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I wrote a breakdown of what happened to GRAIL and the NHS-Galleri trial. 142,000 participants. Primary endpoint missed. Stock dropped 50%. But the full story is more nuanced than the headlines. What it means for the future of cancer screening:

https://t.co/rXwKLR4An0

#CancerScreening #Biotech #GRAIL #Diagnostics #LiquidBiopsy

[Farshad Murtada @FarshadMurtada]

I wrote a breakdown of what happened to GRAIL and the NHS-Galleri trial. 142,000 participants. Primary endpoint missed. Stock dropped 50%. But the full story is more nuanced than the headlines. What it means for the future of cancer screening:

https://t.co/rXwKLR4An0

#CancerScreening #Biotech #GRAIL #Diagnostics #LiquidBiopsy

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Claude @claudeai]

Computer use is now in Claude Code.

Claude can open your apps, click through your UI, and test what it built, right from the CLI.

Now in research preview on Pro and Max plans.

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There is something so wholesome and inspiring about listening to the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs talk about their work, and what makes them excited. I saw kids building AI detection tools, studying relativity, and talking about concepts I didn't run into until my PhD. It made me realize I really wasn't doing enough in high school or undergrad 😂. Kids these days are doing the craziest things. We love to see it. I think it's important for founders to spend some time away and see what other people are doing. More hyped and energized than ever to keep building out SCRY, and so hopeful about the future generation.

#science #startup #TechLeadership

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@cheyava_falls @deleon_omics This is really cool dude.

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@akadogluk @dognosis Awesome news!

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Learn about DNA computers, our electricity-free AI platform, and our first product. Stay up to date with company news, see where to meet us in person, and explore what molecular computing can do.

A lot of exciting news coming soon. This is just the beginning.

Bringing AI to places computers can't go!

#computing #deeptech #biotech

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