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The Three Forms of Scientific Intelligence: A Conversation with DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli
How to pick the problems worth solving, biology's scaling laws, and what AI-driven science actually looks like in practice.
Published on Decoding Science • May 1
Scaling Bio 008: Serif Biomedicines' Jake Rubens on Turning Modified DNA into a New Class of Medicine
A conversation on cracking the two barriers that have kept DNA out of the clinic, what the data shows in primates, and why the best solution might sit…
Apr 21 • Zahra Khwaja and Jake Rubens
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BioByte 157: Physical Force Suppresses Cancer Growth, Generative Design of DNA-Specific Binding Proteins, VIPR Expands RNA-Guided Systems…
Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding…
Apr 30 • Matthew's Biotech Musings, Pranay Satya, Varun Agarwal, Gia-Bao Dam, and Mikaela Kimpton
BioByte 156: Vaccinating Against HIV, RosettaSearch Improves Protein Design, CHARIOT-AAV Makes Strides in Large Gene Delivery, and Reviewing…
Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding…
Apr 23 • Letters from Mohammad, Pranay Satya, Matthew's Biotech Musings, and Mikaela Kimpton
Substack Live | Flagship Pioneering Announcement: Building on the Code of Life
Join us for a Decoding Bio first as we go live on Substack with Flagship Pioneering Origination Partner Jake Rubens. We'll be covering a new Flagship…
Apr 20 • Zahra Khwaja

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BioByte 155: Advancing Engineered Allosteric Control, Amplifying Therapeutic Effects of Cell Therapies, EVEE Enables Variant Effect…
Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding…
Apr 16 • Mikaela Kimpton, Varun Agarwal, Pranay Satya, Gia-Bao Dam, and Matthew's Biotech Musings
BioByte 154: DefensePredictor Uncovers Bacterial Defense Mechanisms, MaxToki Reasons Across Cell Stage Trajectories to Predict Aging, and…
Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding…
Apr 9 • Pranay Satya, Matthew's Biotech Musings, Gia-Bao Dam, and Mikaela Kimpton
BioByte 153: Solving Aging via Induced Proximity Medicines, the Role of lncRNAs in Senescence, Conformational Biasing as a Tool for Protein…
Welcome to Decoding Bio’s BioByte: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding…
Apr 2 • Varun Agarwal, Mikaela Kimpton, Pranay Satya, Matthew's Biotech Musings, and Gia-Bao Dam
Scaling Bio 007: Xaira's Bo Wang and Ci Chu on Building the Virtual Cell for Drug Discovery
A deep dive into X-Cell, scaling laws in perturbation biology, and Xaira’s broader platform strategy.
Mar 30 • Zahra Khwaja

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The Bioelectric Tech Stack
Why has China produced a growing number of profitable biomanufacturing firms, while the West has accumulated stalled pilots and failed scale-ups …
Feb 5 • Cam Watson
Embodied AI in Biotech: Why China Might Lead the Next Revolution
Welcome to Decoding Bio: each week our writing collective highlight notable news—from the latest scientific papers to the latest funding rounds—and…
Sep 16, 2025 • Cam Watson
Projections at the Frontier: Decoding Bio Snapshot 2025
We delve into seven emerging areas of biotech and chart a course from where we stand today to an envisioned landscape of 2030
Sep 3, 2025 • Zahra Khwaja, Bogdan Knezevic, Oliver Hernandez, Dr. Shelby, Mikaela Kimpton, Daniel Burkhardt, Anthony Costa, Vega Shah, Amee Kapadia, Charlene Tang, Isabel Zhang, and Sasha
Scaling Biology 003: Sam Rodriques, Co-Founder and CEO at FutureHouse
On building an AI scientist.
Jan 9, 2025 • Zahra Khwaja
Decoding Bio Snapshot 2024
We're back with another edition! This time, the Decoding Bio Community weighs in on the most impactful papers over the past year
May 28, 2024 • Pablo Lubroth, Asimov Press, Shelby Newsad, Elliot Hershberg, David Li, Phil_BCR, Andrew Pannu, Patrick Malone, Zahra Khwaja, Ketan Yerneni, Morgan Cheatham, Amee Kapadia, Dr. Shelby, and Elliot Hershberg
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