Khalid K. Alam خالد كمال عالم

Asimov Press’ New Book, Written in DNA YouTube video by Asimov Press

youtu.be/m5RfjTH5zUY?...

The world’s first commercially-available book written in DNA. @asimovpress.bsky.social

Could AI make drug discovery worse? In the last few posts I’ve been exploring how different LLMs and related models work in biology and elsewhere.

Could AI make drug discovery worse? open.substack.com/pub/scalingb...

📣 TWO WEEKS UNTIL WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 📣

On March 7th, we’re Standing Up for Science in DC & ALL 50 STATES to make our voices heard. We hope you’ll join us! ☀️

#sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #standupforscience2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

"Genetically encoded sensors" - does that perk your interest?

How about "genetic control," "transcription factors," "riboswitches" or "genetic circuits"?

If so, join us. We're launching in an hour 🚀

Biosensor Seminar

🌍 We're building a global community for biosensor research

🧬 Join us Wed Feb 5 at 1200 ET for the kickoff

🦠 Find out more here: www.biosensorseminar.org

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/bios...

Biosensor Seminar

🌍 We're building a global community for biosensor research

🧬 Join us Wed Feb 5 at 1200 ET for the kickoff

🦠 Find out more here: www.biosensorseminar.org

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/bios...

snowy roads, but the roads are clear of the snow. You can see the sidewalk and trees filled with snow

❄️ Could Nature’s Antifreeze Save Our Roads? 🧊

Fresh snowfall brings winter magic—until the streets turn into salt-covered slush zones. 🚗💨 Cities dump millions of tons of de-icing salt each year to keep roads safe, but at a steep cost:

Here's what Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans looks like as a biotechnology entrepreneur trying to get my startup reimbursed for doing the innovative R&D that makes America great:

Twitter? X? Whatever you call it, I’m not spending time w/ that f#$%ery these days.

Let’s get connected on social media elsewhere. I’m
@ProfSeraYoung here and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and my pager! (JK)

Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Deal Live: Negotiators in Qatar appear close to agreement The war between Israel and Hamas has seen 15 months of death and destruction.

BREAKING: Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters reut.rs/40gI8VK

Excited to have you and Stemloop be a performer on the AI🧬BTO catalyst award! SAME DAY AWARD btw… 😅

Now let’s get after it - clock is ticking (seriously)!

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Stemloop Awarded Funding from DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology Initiative to Enable Machine Learning for Biosensors 🇺🇸🧬

stemloop.com/stemloop-awa...

For more, see our press release: stemloop.com/stemloop-awa...

Shoutout @koeris.bsky.social!

Day 2 of the event was pitch day. We pitched at 1:40 pm, received a recommendation for award 20 mins later, and an award notification as we headed to DCA at 4 pm ~$. By the time we landed at ORD we had a fully executed agreement. 🤯

Last week, @stemloop.bsky.social was invited to pitch
DARPA's Biological Technologies Office for a catalytic, SAME DAY award to support breakthrough technologies at the intersection of AI/ML and biotechnology. 🇺🇸

Congratulations Bilal! I'm excited to hear more.

Thanks everyone for coming out to our event on Saturday! We had a great time and made some really cool art!

Amnesty: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with U.S. Support Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. The nearly 300-page...

Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support

AI Panel featuring Patrick Malone (KdT Ventures), Zeshan
Muhammedi (MBX Capital), Justin Yang (Global Health Investment Corporation),
Shelby Newsad (Compound), Renee Yao (Nvidia)

Ginger Dosier (Biome Consortia) speaks on microbial consortia for defense applications 🏛️

Ajikumar Parayil of Manus Bio talks about accelerating the transition to bioalternatives. He says you can goto any supermarket in America and find at least 10 products with their biomanufactured ingredients 🛒

His outlook for the next decade: “Generative AI without laws of statistical physics is cargo-cult science”

Pratyush Tiwari (UMD) makes the case for investing in statistical physics for GenAI in bio

Alexander asks "what's the ChatGPT moment for biology?" and suggests that moment may come by 2028. He speculates that new architectures are required for bio.

@alexandertitus.com @synbiobeta.bsky.social (we need to get John on 🦋)

DARPA AI 🧬 BTO. Who else is here? Let’s connect and chat data collection to enable AI/ML in bio! @koeris.bsky.social

We got a quote a few months ago. They had tiered service plans and IIRC were pushing the ones that would 2x the cost.

Has it been reliable for you?