David Sun Kong, Ph.D.
@davidsunkong
Director of Community Biotech Initiative @MIT @medialab, microfluidics @metafluidics, organizer @bridgeprogram_, @globalbiosummit, DJ @biotabeats, photographer.
I’m thrilled to announce that the application for the 2025 edition of our @medialab and global synthetic biology course, “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” is now open! Application link in thread 👇
This is why Zohran Mamdani won. He's a modern, educated American with a sense of humor who not only knows how to communicate, but understands and empathizes with the plight of working class Americans. I sincerely hope the Democratic Party is taking notes.
🎙 Join us for Proof of DeSci: Exploring HTGAA, New Initiatives & Cocoa Zero Update We’ll be joined by @davidsunkong from MIT, alongside @thealbertanis and @dnahussey from ValleyDAO, to dive into David’s work on HTGAA and explore if he’s part of any new exciting initiatives.
MAIA: An open-source, modular, bioreactor for cities ift.tt/s6PgBne #biorxiv_synbio
Well this is intriguing. For cities!? Portable, modular, hardware demonstrated by students, democratize synthetic bio... Who wrote this??? it's got @davidsunkong fingerprints all over it ;) Great work!!!
MAIA: An open-source, modular, bioreactor for cities ift.tt/s6PgBne #biorxiv_synbio
Our immune system is amazing, but faces pandemics, cancer and aging. It's also wired to reject what we need to extend our healthspans & minds: organs, implants, new genes. It's time to radically augment it. We need to build an immune-computer interface (ICI). A manifesto🧵!
“To run Doom, all one needs is a screen and willpower." For her final project in Principles of Synthetic Biology, MIT student Lauren “Ren” Ramlan models a system capable of running the classic video game Doom on a display made of E. coli cells. popsci.com/science/doom-e…