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Kenny Workman

1,624 posts

Kenny Workman

@kenbwork

cto @latchbio, data infrastructure for biology

Joined May 2020

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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
May 6
Gave a talk to Machine Learning @ Berkeley on benchmarking frontier models on spatial biology. Why understanding how assays work is important, what verifiability might look like with messy biology + infrastructure challenges running agentic evals at scale.
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 13, 2024
If you are a technical person (engineer, quant, mathematician) interested in learning biology, I encourage you to hit textbooks and memorize the "things", eg. cytokines, surface proteins, cell types, pathways, in core fields like immunology. You will be averse to this because
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Jun 30, 2024
beautiful day to be reminded i have no career in mathematics
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 20, 2024
being a founder in sf is really not that cool and the community has actually become pretty annoying hacker houses, incubators, pitch competitions, twitter grindset culture distract from the actual task at hand more specific discourse on building product, gtm mechanics, customer
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 18, 2024
Many new machine learning tools for protein engineering have popped up in the last year. In these early days, it might be unclear how to actually use them for real molecular design tasks in industry. We demonstrate how to engineer a cholesterol drug and plastic degrading
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
May 19, 2025
unfortunately this individual will never become a great mathematician because his reliance on AI tools will stunt independent and rigorous thought
outside five sigma
@jwt0625
May 18, 2025
new math youtube streamer just dropped
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 15, 2024
I've had many engineers ask me why its worth their time and effort to learn biology in response to this post. Why should they be excited? We are poised for a revolution in biotech that will be uniquely enabled by computers. Convince yourself by digging into the examples I link:
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 13, 2024
If you are a technical person (engineer, quant, mathematician) interested in learning biology, I encourage you to hit textbooks and memorize the "things", eg. cytokines, surface proteins, cell types, pathways, in core fields like immunology. You will be averse to this because
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Mar 14, 2025
Unfounded claims about basic concepts in statistics and population genetics will destroy trust with consumers who lack the background to investigate facts themselves. These products are based on statistical tests called GWAS that provide measures of "heritability": precise
Kian Sadeghi
@KianSadeghi5
Mar 14, 2025
After four and a half years of building, I’m beyond excited to announce today family planning via genetic matching on @nucleusgenomics. Imagine knowing nearly every possible genetic outcome for you and your partner’s future children, starting with your future children’s risk of
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 28, 2025
Agents are finally starting to work in biology. We’ve partnered with Anthropic and major biotech vendors - Vizgen, AtlasXOmics, Takara, 10x Genomics - to build a tool that allows scientists to steer their own analysis with natural language. Raw spatial data to publication
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Feb 9, 2025
Genentech is the flagship example of an industrial research organization. Their culture of open science and free flowing publication is rooted in a strong contrarian foundation we should all remember. In the 1980s, secrecy, siloes, zero sum IP fear was far more rampant in
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Feb 25, 2025
Proteins are still pretty hard to measure. Traditional approaches (e.g., phage, yeast, ribosome display) rely on DNA barcodes + NGS, but face throughput constraints + quirks. Infinity Bio has created a "self-assembling" DNA-barcoded libraries. The goal: screen drugs against
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Jun 21, 2025
This is effectively a cure for type 1 diabetes. Autologous, (chemically) reprogrammed iPSCs were engineered from a patient's fat cells and injected back into her stomach. After ~2.5 months, she no longer needed insulin and now enjoys ice cream + candy like a normal person.
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Oct 20, 2024
Replying to @alicemazzy
which makes no sense because the parties are terrible
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Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Feb 6, 2025
Most code in biology will run on GPUs over the next decade. Bioinformatics workflows, protein engineering models, virtual cells. Excited to partner with @nvidia @NVIDIAHealth to write new tools + consolidate access to existing models / hardware to biotechs across the industry
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