Today in @Nature, we report MouseMapper: foundation-model AI to map disease perturbations across the entire mouse body cell-by-cell.
In obesity, it revealed body-wide inflammation & unexpected facial nerve damage. 🧵👇🔉
https://t.co/BERf5GQ10Z led by @Dorie00 & @yingchen733
This milestone reflects the work of an exceptional team. I am grateful to be building alongside Gabriel Levesque Tremblay, Ph.D., Mo Ebrahimkhani, Samira Kiani, Joshua Hislop, PhD, and the broader HexemBio team pushing this forward every day.
Aging is often treated as inevitable, with decline accepted as the default trajectory. We see it differently. By restoring function at the level of the blood system, there is an opportunity to impact a wide range of downstream conditions and redefine what healthy aging looks like
We have secured FDA Orphan Drug Designation and completed a successful FDA Pre-IND meeting, validating both the urgency of the indication and the strength of our approach.
Today I am proud to share that HexemBio has closed a $10.4M seed round led by @DraperVC , @SOSV, @seraphim_space , alongside a group of strategic investors aligned with our vision to extend healthy human lifespan.
https://t.co/SQUICaTkvW
BREAKING: This year's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. The pair have been recognised "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation."
Stay tuned for more from @nature
Check out @sametsyildirim, CTO & Co-Founder at @Orbillion1 as he participates in the session "Bridging Biotech: Navigating the Lab-to-Industry Transition" at #SynBioBeta2024: https://t.co/jG08g25Txt
Atatürk’ün ölümsüzlüğe kavuşmasının 85. Yıl dönümü günü Dünyanın en eski bilim akademisi Academia dei Lincei’nin üyelik kabul törenine katılan Celal Şengör “O olmasa ben burada olamazdım” diyerek akademi üyelerini Atatürk için saygı duruşuna davet etti
An inspiring week spent at the UAE Climate Tech Conference with fellow climate advocates.
@VentureSouq, Maria Lola Fernandez @SoniaWey Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), Sophie Hildebrand @PatriciaBubner @sametsyildirim
Excited to publish @ycombinator’s Request for Startups: Climate Tech.
A lot of work went into this by @drusenko and myself, and we hope this will inspire any founders to work on what we think is an opportunity of a generation. https://t.co/iYaJcx28iq