AdrianWoolfson

@AdrianWoolfson

Author: The Future of Species: @BloomsburyPub @mitpress. Life Without Genes @HarperCollins. Opinions @WSJ @Sciencemagazine Founder & CEO genyro.com

San Francisco, CA adrianwoolfson.com Joined October 2011

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AdrianWoolfson @AdrianWoolfson 2d

deepmind.google/science/alphag…

deepmind.google AlphaGenome Using AI to understand the human genome

AdrianWoolfson @AdrianWoolfson 6d

nytimes.com/2026/10/20/sci…

www.nytimes.com Start-Up Claims to Use A.I.-Created Viruses to Treat a Patient (Gift Article) Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a virus to attack one patient’s illness.

AdrianWoolfson @AdrianWoolfson Nov 6

Nice piece in the October 19 edition of @nytimes by @carlzimmer on the origin of life.

nytimes.com/2026/10/19/sci…

www.nytimes.com How Did Life Arise? Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution suddenly, inexplicably turned up the dial.

AdrianWoolfson @AdrianWoolfson Nov 5

press.asimov.com/articles/theor…

press.asimov.com On the Role of Theory in Biology Biology is often seen as a primarily experimental science, with theory serving merely to generalize patterns from empirical data. But history reveals that theory plays a more generative role in the...

AdrianWoolfson @AdrianWoolfson Nov 2

bioengineer.org/polystyrene-na…

bioengineer.org Polystyrene Nanoplastics Drive Colorectal Tumors in Mice by Disrupting Gut A mouse study finds chronic polystyrene nanoplastic exposure promotes colorectal tumorigenesis by depleting a protective gut bacterium and weakening Th17 cell immunity.