The Century of Biology

What Are Virtual Cells?

Learning "universal representations" of life's fundamental unit

Jun 29 • 

Elliot Hershberg

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March 2025

On Modality Commoditization

And what might come next

Mar 16 • 

Elliot Hershberg

114

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February 2025

Hub-and-Spoke Biotechs: BridgeBio

Attempting "Moneyball for biotech"

Feb 16 • 

Elliot Hershberg

85

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October 2024

Hub-and-Spoke Biotechs: Nimbus Therapeutics

Building an "evergreen" drug discovery engine

Oct 20, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

59

16

September 2024

Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees

Why and how to engineer trees; climate biotech business strategy

Sep 22, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

63

17

June 2024

A Summer Hiatus

Pausing before scaling

Jun 23, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

56

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Scaling CRISPR Cures

Realizing the potential of genetic medicine

Jun 2, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

60

17

May 2024

Generating (Somewhat) New Biology with AI

Using protein language models for Digital Evolution

May 5, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

55

16

April 2024

Compounding Until Inflection

Present vs. future platform value

Apr 14, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

35

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March 2024

Beyond Steel Tanks

GLP-1 drugs could one day outsell iPhones, but there is not enough biomanufacturing capacity to make them. For solutions, we should look away from the…

Published on Asimov Press • Mar 24, 2024

February 2024

New tools for programming biology

Continuous mutagenesis, RNA writing, and more

Feb 18, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

70

9

January 2024

Spill the TEA

Making economically viable bioproducts

Jan 28, 2024 • 

Elliot Hershberg

58

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