John Cumbers

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John Cumbers
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It's the end of one era at @nuclera and the start of another. Michael Chen, who co-founded Nuclera in 2013 and has led it ever since, is stepping down as CEO. He moves into the role of Chief Scientific and Business Officer. Carl Raimond takes over as CEO to lead the company's
John Cumbers
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I read the @AnthropicAI preprint this morning with a second cup of coffee, and somewhere around page six I stopped reading and started rereading. The setup is simple enough. Anthropic built a molecular biology lab in the Bay Area this spring, staffed it with people who have
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John Cumbers
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Sep 23
$451 million into two AI biotech companies in a single morning. @enveda closed a $311M Series E led by @CatalioCapital. Their PRISM platform identifies biologically active molecules made by plants, microbes, and the human body, then ranks them by therapeutic potential so
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John Cumbers
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Sep 21
Huge congratulations to Micha Y. Breakstone and the Cellular Intelligence team on the recent addition of Yann LeCun and Bob Langer to their scientific advisory board, alongside Jens Nielsen of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's BioInnovation Institute (BII) Micha was on our AIxBIO
John Cumbers
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Sep 18
Excited to announce two of our keynote speakers for @SynBioBeta 2027: @geochurch, founder of more than 50 companies in the synthetic biology space, and @alexrives, who runs @biohub. Church's list includes @editasmed, Nebula Genomics, Veritas Genetics, GRO Biosciences, Rejuvenate
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