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The OSF Playbook: a guide for investing in science & tech efforts to pursue humanity's opportunities and challenges http://t.co/gEwz5XmsEk

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Hello, world? Why limit ourselves to one planet. Let's rewrite the operating systems of life. http://t.co/OXBetgfKFh

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Congratulations to @Ginkgo on this incredible news, of securing an up to $1.1B loan to expand their biosecurity and pandemic response platform!

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Human Organs-on-Chips could revolutionize drug development, disease modelling & personalized medicine.

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. @osfund is an enthusiastic investor in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) via @NuMatTechMOF . An exciting potential application of this technology is creating new ways to address climate change.

Metal-Organic Frameworks

I’ve been talking about new technologies for fighting climate change, with an emphasis on negative carbon emissions. Now let’s begin looking at one technology in more detail. This will …

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Congrats to fellow explorer and new fund @fiftyyearsvc for its bold vision in addressing big societal challenges!

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Mathematical algorithms are an instrument of change in today’s business world http://t.co/KzKYBeUfol http://t.co/eZ4cQXGLqA

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The future of intelligence may be our greatest exploration yet #TheWorldWeBuild

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Please join us in welcoming @HamptonCreek , makers of Just Mayo and Just Cookies, to the OS Fund!

Re-imagining the World’s Food Supply

Hampton Creek’s Josh Tetrick is leading a new movement around the future of food. It’s science with an Iron Chef twist.

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In support of discoverers who pursue the unknown and risk everything to build a better world http://t.co/A7LJVVSAHW

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This is "OS Fund" by OSF on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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We are honored to be in such great company, with @bryan_johnson at our helm, and for the opportunity to invest in incredible synthetic biology companies such as @ArzedaCo , @catalogdna , @Ginkgo , @HelixNano , @LygosBiotech , @pivotbio , and @Synthego .

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"While @bryan_johnson bankrolled @osfund I himself, OSF II will take money from outside investors. They've already invested $24.9M into 12 companies, including nanotechnology co @NuMatTechMOF and protein-design company @ArzedaCo ." @mcbridesg @bloomberg

Braintree Founder Is Seeking $250 Million for New Venture Fund

The entrepreneur behind payments service Braintree is seeking to pull together a new $250 million venture fund that will focus on public health, natural resources, and global infrastructure.

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Drones (by @Matternet ) are being tested in the fight against a tuberculosis epidemic http://t.co/KsFSyGp2Mq

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Hats off to @jrkelly , @reshmapshetty & @Ginkgoo team. This deal with @Bayer is a really big deal for the industry & world

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So excited to be putting @Ginkgoo 's and @Bayer 's technology and $100M against an important challenge!!

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A huge congrats to OS Fund portfolio company @justforall for the expansion of their #justegg product into more than 2,000 @kroger stores!

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. @JeffKlunzinger and I started a venture fund in 2014, OS Fund, after I sold my company Braintree (Venmo). I seeded it with $100M. Here's how it's going so far.

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Code is the new language of creation - @bryan_johnson on @HuffPostScience #TheWorldWeBuild

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We're thrilled to lead @ArzedaCo $15.2m Series A, CEO @biopraxis thinks their protein design technology could potentially take the place of the petroleum-based products present in common materials and chemicals from plexiglass to herbicides to sweeteners.

UPDATE: Arzeda Closes Series A on $15.2m for Plant-Based Computational Protein Production, Led by...

Seattle-based Arzeda has raised a $12 million Series A round to expand the capacity of its synthetic protein and enzyme development operation.

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Asteroid Mining Is Closer Than You Think. via @nanalyzetweets

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"the era of asteroid mining might happen much sooner than many people realize," @PlanetaryRsrcs http://t.co/5RUFt0qz3K

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When gut bacteria changes brain function http://t.co/I74njlabU7 cc @ubiome

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"Brain net,” abundant 3-D printing, VR, mobile diagnostics, AI helpers & more predictions via 7 futurists http://t.co/8VSZ4o2rda @JasonSilva

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Could synthetic stingray lead to a better artificial heart? @wyssinstitute @npratc #biology

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Proud to invest in Gingko Bioworks. It is ushering in a new industrial era, a revolution powered by biology @Ginkgoo

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Congratulations @catalogdna -- we're excited to see what comes next!

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We successfully raised our Series A to commercialize DNA-based computation. Join us on our journey - we're hiring! #dna #datastorage #futureofcomputing

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How artificial intelligence is bringing us smarter medicine #AI @AtomwiseInc @humanlongevity

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“The beauty of life and creation is that you never really know what could come next” @bryan_johnson #TheWorldWeBuild

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. @vicariousinc is building a unified system that will eventually be generally intelligent like a human @fuelfive http://t.co/2zQKDPuKLU

Silicon Valley's hottest AI company says we're talking about smart machines all wrong

We've lost sight of what the word means.

www.businessinsider.com

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"A revolution is coming in the way we make everything around us." - @jrkelly #synbio @SynBioBeta

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How the sharing economy is influencing biotech innovation @Harlembiospace @indbio @ycombinator HT @sgi_dna

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At no other time in history has the distance between imagination and creation been so narrow. @bryan_johnson

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Brain-to-brain interfaces, playing video games! @SmithsonianMag

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Looking to accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic treatments across diseases? AI-driven drug discovery company, @twoXAR , is growing its team. Explore career opportunities in engineering, operations, & business at

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A new half-a-billion-dollar White House initiative to study the microbiome cc @uBiome

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"Biologists are the engineers of the future." @ginkgoo @SynGenomeInc @jrkelly @reshmapshetty http://t.co/iAvTDsR01X

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We're one day old! In cased you missed it yesterday, here's our manifesto about what we're building:

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This dime-sized implant let 2 people w/ paralysis control a computer cursor w/ their minds http://t.co/NtQJ8pLwzc http://t.co/FHQTUh8Z0m

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. @HamptonCreek is rewriting the OS of food so that the right choice is also the tastier and more affordable one.

Re-imagining the World’s Food Supply

Hampton Creek’s Josh Tetrick is leading a new movement around the future of food. It’s science with an Iron Chef twist.

medium.com

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We’re proud investors in Dabrowski brothers, Michael & Paul, and the @synthego team. #Genetics #SynthBio

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4 years

With the exciting news of a partnership with @AldiUSA , JUST Egg can now be found in 20 of 23 largest US retailers and 10,000 stores nationwide. Congrats to @eatjust on this awesome update!

JUST Egg Continues to Dominate, Now Stocked in Aldi USA Across 36 States - vegconomist - the vegan...

JUST Egg reports that its popular plantbased egg replacement is now on-shelf at ALDI stores in 36 states, meaning it is now stocked by 20 of the 23 largest

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We turned 1! Reflections on the past year @bryan_johnson

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Explaining science as an adventure movie and reimagining societal heroes #TheWorldWeBuild

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New $400 MM VC fund backs startups w/ a positive social/environmental impact http://t.co/2CZZQPSIxG Congrats @NancyPfundDBL & @IraEhrenpreis

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Your doctor can use virtual reality to examine an Exact 3D replica of your heart http://t.co/YjBSv3vCGK http://t.co/kO563fnkXK

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. @JCVenterInst studies genetic mutations which allow microalgae (phytoplankton) to survive extreme climates.

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DNA is a programming language - Luis Silva @arcturusbio http://t.co/xbRAu3jsr8 HT @synbiobeta @IndBio #synbio

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Hacking Gut Bacteria Could Be The Future Of Medicine @ubiome @carolyn_greg

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New Space Mining Legislation Is 'History in the Making' @interplanetary @PlanetaryRsrcs

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By the way, if you have a bold idea and want to get in touch, please send us a message: http://t.co/Eo4EMoQarF

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We're quite excited to be investing in @twoXAR with SoftBank Ventures & @a16z

Moving drug discovery into the fast lane: OS Fund invests in twoXAR’s AI-driven approach

Applying computational advances to improve drug discovery is one of the most promising areas in healthcare. Data-informed decisions can…

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We're happy to be funding @VergeGenomics who is pionneering AI drug discovery in Parkinson's and ALS

Verge Genomics gathers $32M to trial its AI-built neuroscience drugs

Neuroscience drug discoverer Verge Genomics has raised $32 million in early venture capital financing, a large boost to its plans to bring its AI-generated compounds to the clinic against amyotroph |...

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Resources for learning about the #Moon from @ESA .

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How do you bring safe new drugs to market, faster? OS Fund portfolio company @AAlphaBio uses their AlphaSeq technology to sort through millions of protein interactions simultaneously. Learn more at

Inside A-Alpha Bio's $2.8 Million Fundraising Round - Foster Blog

Univ. of Washington spinout A-Alpha Bio recently announced a successful $2.8 million seed round of fundraising and spoke with the Buerk Center about it.

blog.foster.uw.edu

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In this must-read interview with @business , @jrkelly from @Ginkgo talks brewing DNA like it's beer, robots, trustworthy GMOs, $4B, friends as co-founders, and the enormous opportunities that lie ahead in synthetic biology. Check it out at

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We’re a big fan of what @indbio is doing

Laura Brightman

@lauraliza

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“IndieBio Announces Funding of 15 New Biotechs” by @RyanBethencourt

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Science Editor of @uBiome , Elisabeth Bik ( @MicrobiomDigest ), reports from Human #Microbiome Congress.

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Reprogramming cells to heal the human body http://t.co/4yfelk1ZDl @ellie_kincaid http://t.co/X9MCF03caL

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“Evolution is the most powerful algo ever, but you have to figure out how to stack it in your favor.” @LygosBiotech

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Paper-based diagnostic tools, built using synthetic gene networks, are developed by @WyssInstitute .

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Oh no big deal, just an asteroid potentially worth $5.4 trillion to pass by Earth today cc @PlanetaryRsrcs http://t.co/00jyoMvvus

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Doctors! @uBiome is inviting you to join their new clinical microbiome consortium http://t.co/LicZBV1PT1

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Congratulations to @Ginkgo on the close of their $70M funding from @illumina ! These funds will be dedicated to scaling Ginkgo's infrastructure and enabling widespread testing with next-generation sequencing (NGS).

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We’re honored for the support from @illumina and others as we develop large scale testing for COVID-19

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"A new OS for synthetic biology." http://t.co/WX3qgEpylP

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How bacteria in the gut help fight off viruses HT @uBiome

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What do you think about the new OSF Playbook for investing in future sci-tech? #synbio #funding

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“People should not be dying because medicine cannot physically get to them,” — @Andreasx in NY Mag http://t.co/dN4owXyGR3

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. @PaolaSantanaM of @matternet on a new mode for transportation where there are no roads http://t.co/f92CMm2dAg #drones

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The difference between focusing on doing good with technology and building good technology http://t.co/GIKns0uDF0

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OSF portfolio company @numattech is utilizing MOFs to design the future of drug delivery. Check out the link below to learn more about the biotechnological applications of MOFs.

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Congratulations @Ginkgo on this exciting news!

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We're honored to be able to share that we have been selected by the @NIH for a RADx contract, to help enable the scale development of our NGS-based testing technology. Congratulations to our incredible technical team on this milestone / recognition!!

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. @JCVenterInst is working to understand code of the brain on a genetic level - @jcventer #darpabit http://t.co/00VNDXOLu6

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Space Industry Startups Eye Asteroid Mining, Tourism And In-Orbit Construction As The Future http://t.co/N9YVHy0MO1 @PlanetaryRsrcs

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Bil-lion-aire: A person who has directly or indirectly positively impacted the lives of at least 1 billion people. http://t.co/dv1SOg7aNb

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Combining human neurons with machines @indbio @KonikuTech

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. @hamptoncreek First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (and then we all eat potato salad)

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Fashion's Biological Future Is Now http://t.co/Fg2s3wtSdR @indbio via @discerningbrute http://t.co/9J4GiMK5oc

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The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain http://t.co/zRI3ED30CV @petersm_th #sfn15 #neuroscience http://t.co/bJIiAav8Kv

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ICYMI: The venture fund that rewards risk-takers http://t.co/Py1WIk3IvL @matternet @hamptoncreek @PlanetaryRsrcs @SynGenomeInc @ginkgoo

'We have this remarkable ability to create any kind of world we can imagine'

The OS Fund backs entrepreneurs in emerging domains like synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and space exploration

www.theguardian.com

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. @hamptoncreek writes a letter to food leaders of the world

Dear Food Leaders,

I’ve had lots of successful folks give me advice about you. Advice on whether to work with you (be wary), on how to grow with you (go slow)…

justegg.medium.com

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Photo of a planet? Nope -- petri dish awash in bacteria #sciart cc @ubiome

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Editing the Editor: Impact of ‘CRISPR 2.0’ outlined by @sciencemagazine .

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Portfolio company @Ginkgo just announced partnerships with accelerators @ycombinator and Petri, offering participating startups access to Ginkgo's organism design platform. We can't wait to see what new ideas will be developed through this relationship!

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Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood? http://t.co/8Oy0ZXCe4k @ubiome

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The New Economics of Biotech Offers a Third Way for Scientists to Create Companies @rshigeta @indbio

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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford

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Spotlight on @matternet and its ongoing drone deliveries of medical and other supplies

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OS Fund II raising $250M to invest in deep tech (science+technology) to address our vexing global challenges

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Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time #microbiome #neuroscience cc @uBiome

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The next-generation nanomachines are already inside you (spoiler alert: first ever artificial ribosomes!) http://t.co/NId04je1UV #synbio

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The 15 moonshot technologies @NASA is funding to make science fiction a reality http://t.co/RfX9zlG71O

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The #future is not inevitable. It requires a great deal of thought & not just from thought leaders @geochurch #tech

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We love this: After her surgery, a hospital sent this girl on a virtual reality adventure to cheer her up #VR

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A team of scientists has emerged from an 8-month stay in an isolation dome built to simulate conditions on Mars http://t.co/ail1qLmeCq

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Today is the final day of @SynbioBeta 2019, but it's jam-packed with great events featuring OS Fund portfolio company team members George McArthur from @ArzedaCo , Jason Kakoyiannis from @Ginkgo , @DavidAYounger from @AAlphaBio , and Christina Agapakis from @Ginkgo . Don't miss out!

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4/Let’s go on some amazing adventures. http://t.co/gEwz5XmsEk http://t.co/lnKdke4Rmf

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. @ginkgoo inks deal w/ @TwistBioscience for 100M base pairs of synthetic DNA largest #synbio partnership in world

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Why Mercedes is betting on drones, self-driving robots w/ @matternet #future #transportation

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Congrats to @miroculus and @twistbioscience on your partnership for NGS target enrichment and library prep tools!

Twist Bioscience | Twist Bioscience and Miroculus Agree to Collaborate on Next-Generation Sequenc...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2020-- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA...

investors.twistbioscience.com

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What would you end up creating if you mastered the 3 domains of matter, life and mind? @erikailves #TheWorldWeBuild

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Researchers at @UUtah have developed auto-focusing smart glasses. via @Hackaday

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