Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷
@ATinyGreenCell
Amateur 🌿 Biologist • Aspiring 🌺 Designer Researcher at Binomica Labs • Degreeless Heathen • Petunia Breeder • Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Excited to announce some new plasmid offerings in my shop at ATinyGreenCell.com! Here's a thread of the current catalog. All proceeds directly support my lab and my continued effort to build useful open-source tools. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more 💚 1/7
This is still my favourite time-lapse I've made 🌱 A tiny mustard seed (half a millimetre) germinating into a seedling. 7 days in 9 seconds.
So excited to launch our 1st reagent products at Ginkgo!! We've built a ton of amazing biology tools over the years -- awesome to get them in the hands of researchers! Free samples at the link below if you'd like to try out our cell-free protein synthesis system!! 😀🧬 🧬
Cell-free protein synthesis systems, optimized at Ginkgo and now available to you! Ginkgo has been using cell-fee protein synthesis systems in house for years, and we’re now making our E. coli system available to outside users! We’ve optimized it for: • High production from…
Ginkgo has launched an E.coli-based Cell Free Protein Synthesis reagent! reagents.ginkgo.bio/products/cell-…
🌈📷✨ Did you know some proteins can survive non-natural, harsh environments? In our new study, we explore how to stabilize these fluorescent proteins (FPs) and enzymes — unlocking their potential for sensors, materials, and more! #MaterialsScience #Bioengineering
Cultured meat not easy to deliver at scale but it is going to be essential if we want supply chain resilience in this cyberpunk ass future we're building
Link: forms.gle/eXuEdazNvb1voW… This Friday 25/July/2025 at 7PM EAT / 4PM UTC @Synbio4allA will host Dr. Feilun Wu of WeGenie an AI powered tool which helps in preparing lab protocols. Come discover how the power of AI is improving laboratory experiments
After a long sleep, environmental remediation with live biologics is back to the mainstream R&D agenda at this side of the pond. Wanna join an EU-wide on line conversation with bioremediation stakeholders this Nov 10? Express interest and register here 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/b7xVz7dJcu
🎸 Hey Rockstars, rumor is we've got some WILD events for you punks coming up over at the tower (frontiertower that is), so you have the skills to survive beyond the corporate wasteland. 🥼
Synbio will take off when we realize that bioreactors are the problem. Releasing organisms to solve environmental problems is where the action is and will be. Leverage biology's ability to replicate.
There is a cancer drug made from the ground-up leaves of the Madagascar periwinkle plant. It’s called vinblastine, and it was first approved by the FDA in 1965. The drug is used to treat many different cancers, including Hodgkin’s lymphoma (usually jointly with other…
Man that's rough.
5 percentile grant, I was suggested to re-submit...which I will, I guess.
When considering hiring for my company, I will explicitly ignore where ppl get their degrees from. I care more about willingness to learn, and traction. Bonus for demonstrating compassion and resiliency. If you’ve worked for an asshole, what did you learn etc.?
How do plasmids kickstart gene expression in new hosts? Our new review in Plasmid: “Strategies for zygotic gene expression during plasmid establishment” with Nathan Fraikin (@tacc_c lab). Part of the #ISPB2024 special issue (Hamamatsu, Japan)🧵1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.plas…
If only bio hiring was sane. If only we had accessible biotech tools to allow for makers in amateur settings to cut their teeth on real projects. Working on it.
I'd hire a 2.0 GPA who built this WAY before a 4.0 GPA who has never built anything in the real world
ICYMI: Last week’s newsletter featured @LynnSosnoskie on the risks of AI-generated pest and crop recommendations. "AI tools may seem convenient, [but] they lack local agronomic knowledge and judgment that trained professionals bring to pest management.." shorturl.at/khV30
I spoke with an NIH program officer yesterday who said that, given the massive 44% cut planned for NIH, they were only planning to award about 12 new grants before the end of the year, which are mainly ones in the 1st and 2nd percentile, so the 3 grants we had with good scores…
The NIH has decided that scientists can only submit 6 grants a year. OK. But you need a score that’s < 10% at least to get funded. Meaning, at best, 1 out of 10 grants you submit will have a chance (YMMV of course). 🫠
Imptomptu goo goo dolls concert on the Cumberland river
I played Lunar Lander on Moon Day and did poorly, lol
