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Adrian Woolfson
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Opinions @WSJ.com & @Science.org. Author Life Without Genes @harpercollins.bsky.social & On The Future of Species bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (12 Feb 2026) & @MITpress.bsky.social (17 Mar, 2026). www.adrianwoolfson.com. Founder Genyro.com
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It was a great pleasure to be interviewed by #NDTV on the #Tech360 show by the brilliant host #AayushAilawadi where I discussed my new book #OnTheFutureOfSpecies

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Author Adrian Wolfson Warns Of ‘Second Genesis’ In New Book 'On The Future Of Species'
YouTube video by NDTV
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February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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The World’s First Viral AI Assistant Has Arrived, and Things Are Getting Weird
We thought AI agents were meant to assist human work. What happens when they start talking to each other?
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February 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Transformers as a substrate for structural biology
Transformers are rapidly reshaping structural biology. We argue the reason is “Emergent Latent Biology” (ELB): transformers place proteins into high-d…
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February 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune
Mustafa Suleyman believes current AI computational power will only accelerate, disrupting every kind of work you do “sitting down at a computer.”
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February 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Is AI the Next Species?
A Deep Dive into Our Future
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February 14, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?
All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Bridging the gap from chemistry to life: discovery of a tiny RNA that can copy itself | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Led by Edoardo Gianni, Philipp Holliger’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division have identified a small self-replicating catalytic RNA (ribozyme), providing new ...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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DNA origami vaccines program antigen-focused germinal centers
Priming rare subdominant precursor B cells in germinal centers (GCs) is a central goal of vaccination to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV. Multivalent immunogen display on ...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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I’ve just learned that my forthcoming book ‘On The Future of Species’ (published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February and the MIT Press in the U.S. on 14 April) has been awarded #1 Best Seller in Medical Genetics on Amazon in the UK.
February 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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A single-cell cytokine dictionary of human peripheral blood
Cytokines orchestrate immune responses, yet we still lack a comprehensive understanding of their specific effects across human immune cells due to their pleiotropy, context dependence and extensive functional redundancy. Here, we present a Human ...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Biological data governance in an age of AI
Tailored access controls on new viral data would reduce misuse risks
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February 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Programmable genome editing in human cells using RNA-guided bridge recombinases
Site-specific insertion of gene-sized DNA fragments remains an unmet need in the genome editing field. IS110-family serine recombinases have recently been shown to mediate programmable DNA recombinati...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Article on On the Future of Species in today’s Evening Standard

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Inside the lab where scientists want to rewrite our DNA from scratch
Artificial biological intelligence could change humanity forever. Chris Stokel-Walker reports
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February 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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AI adoption by the Engineering Biology community: survey findings
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February 5, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Engineering immunotherapy from within
Lipid nanoparticles are designed to generate therapeutic T cells inside living animal models
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February 5, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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Review of my forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ in today’s Guardian

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On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson review – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?
A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety
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February 4, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Scaling medical AI across clinical contexts
Nature Medicine - To function safely and effectively, medical AI models must adapt automatically to differences in users, health systems, geographies, diseases and populations. This Perspective...
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February 4, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Nice to be in the New Scientist list of best new popular science books for 2026
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Illumina introduces Billion Cell Atlas to accelerate AI and drug discovery
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January 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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How DeepMind's genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries
Hackathons using AlphaGenome and other AI models are hunting down the genetic causes of devastating conditions that have evaded diagnosis.
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January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Design of solubly expressed miniaturized SMART MHCs - PubMed
The precise recognition of specific peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) complexes by T cell receptors (TCRs) plays a key role in infectious disease, cancer, and autoimmunity. A critical step in many immunobiological studies is the identification of T cells expressing TCRs specific to a g …
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January 31, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications
Agriculture is under pressure to provide food for a growing population and the feedstock required to drive the bioeconomy. Methods to breed and genetically modify plants are inadequate to keep pace. W...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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China turns the tables in biotech
For at least a century, major scientific research initiatives have reliably occurred in the United States, usually in response to geopolitical competition. This helped establish the country’s status a...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Genome
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January 29, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Metaphors for Biology: Time
A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of common events in molecular biology.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM