Versha Prakash

Former genome engineer, now giving computers a sense of smell @Osmo_Labs

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

.@awiltschko is the CEO of @Osmo_Labs, a company that uses artificial intelligence to digitize the sense of smell. https://t.co/rb2KMnitMr

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

@patrickc @awiltschko @Osmo_Labs 100%. our most evolutionary salient scent
from Proust (in search of lost time) to Shazam for smell.
we teamed w/@awiltschko to spin out @Osmo_Labs from GOOG last yr
team are geniuses + already 'teleported' 1st ever smell...

how it works https://t.co/5LHo5gVn5D

[Alex Wiltschko @awiltschko]

Well, we actually did it. We digitized scent. A fresh summer plum was the first fruit and scent to be fully digitized and reprinted with no human intervention. It smells great.

Holy moly, I’m still processing the magnitude of what we’ve done. And yet, it feels like as we cross this finish line we are instantly at a new starting line. I’ll have more to share about what’s in store that we’re building on top of this.

A huge HUGE congrats to the entire team across scientific, engineering, operational, and creative disciplines. It takes a village named Osmo to do this.

I don’t know if this is embarrassing, but I carry the plum scent with me a lot of places and smell it constantly. It makes me smile.

I’m curious, if y’all want to smell it? If we made a limited release fragrance of the first teleported scent and dedicated the proceeds to science, would you want it?

[Julia Koricheva @KorichevaLab]

Springer has released over 400 science books downloadable as pdf for free as part of 'Free Textbooks and Library Link special issue during Covid 19 package'. Lots of stats books and some ecology ones as well
You can search and download here: https://t.co/8kDCys1QeR

[Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang]

I wrote about how scientists are thinking about tackling the coronavirus, down to its molecular weak spots https://t.co/WZ1dZ91YZE

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

The best coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2 biology lecture I have seen so far, by Britt Glaunsinger @UCBerkeley @berkeleyMCB @HHMINEWS @igisci. Covers where it comes from, how it gets into the cell, replicates in the host, and exploits the immune system against you.

https://t.co/M8U7jrnI5f

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

The terrible beauty of #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 molecular biology, boiled down by the @nytimes @NYTScience https://t.co/lWDt9MGZRs

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨I wrote a big piece about the future of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the US got to this point; what needs to happen in the coming weeks and months; what the endgame looks like; and what the world might be like in the aftermath.

https://t.co/woc4dxwT0Z

[Rasmus O. Bak @rasmus_o_bak]

Exciting postdoc position available in my lab on CRISPR Genome Editing based on a collaboration with Novo Nordisk. The first two years are based at Aarhus University and the 3rd year at Novo Nordisk, Måløv. The position is available from March '20. https://t.co/F2YGkrzAt5

[BSGCT @_BSGCT]

5 year postdoctoral position available in the lab of BSGCT board member @alanlparker @virustinkerer working on oncolytic virotherapies and immunotherapies.

[sharon begley @sxbegle]

You've been wondering how the $VRTX and $CRSP clinical trial for #sicklecell & beta-thal was going? Here's the data on the 1st (and only) 2 patients, via @adamfeuerstein & me: https://t.co/X1gKCs5hX9

[Charles Gersbach @cgersbach]

A few more thoughts on the many exciting aspects to this step forward for gene editing therapies: of course the greatest part of this story is the demonstration that patients are showing benefit from this technology for the first time. https://t.co/AaLCAdbO2q

[ASGCT @ASGCTherapy]

Billions of cells that were genetically modified with #CRISPR have started working, as doctors had hoped, inside the body of the first #SickleCell patient to receive the experimental treatment, @NPR reports. https://t.co/4nekCjQrKI

[Ewan Birney @ewanbirney]

Race, Genetics and Pseudoscience. A blog post explainer by myself, @JenniferRaff, @AdamRutherford and @aylwyn_scally on a complex topic.
https://t.co/nqHklWhuzC

[Jacob Corn @jcornlab]

The rarity of two homozygous parents is often used as an argument against germline editing. Read the story of one such family and try to put yourself in their shoes. These are questions with no easy answers. https://t.co/Pik3uOyvV7

[Fyodor Urnov @UrnovFyodor]

An excellent report by @julemieux1 on both the big picture and the technical features of prime editing (with the @igisci's own Ross Wilson as one of the experts).
I personally do hope this college standout will become like @alexmorgan13 on the big stage.
https://t.co/5WmrHywQFx

[Jacob Corn @jcornlab]

Prime editing is here! I'm looking forward to trying this out. Super idea and thoroughly tested. Please calm down with suggestions that it bypasses repair. The cell is what makes Prime editing work, from removing flap to choosing right strand via nicking. https://t.co/t7xcbgIQco

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

@nature @broadinstitute 2 different ways to represent this significant advance 😉
1. for the genomics community
https://t.co/GG6dLc44O8 by @davidrliu @liugroup @broadinstitute
2. for the uninitiated
https://t.co/eoEOYUaYrH by @antonioregalado @techreview

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

"Prime" #CRISPR genome editing: a new chapter integrating reverse transcriptase for search and replace that is yet more versatile and precise; might be suitable for approaching 89% of disease-causing mutations
https://t.co/XOJF8FjTue
@nature by David Lui and team @broadinstitute

[David R. Liu @davidrliu]

Today we describe prime editing, a very versatile new approach to genome editing in human cells without cutting the DNA double helix. We integrated a reverse transcriptase with a disabled CRISPR enzyme to copy virtually any edit from an engineered guide RNA into a target site...