Adrian Woolfson
@adrianwoolfson.bsky.social
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
My review of Max Telford’s excellent new book ‘The Tree of Life’ by @maxjtelford.bsky.social published today in the Wall Street Journal @wsj.com @wwnorton.com
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‘The Tree of Life’ Review: The Ancestor at the Root of It All
Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My review of Max Telford’s excellent new book ‘The Tree of Life’ by @maxjtelford.bsky.social published today in the Wall Street Journal @wsj.com @wwnorton.com
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49 trillion new bases of sequence for AI genome language models to digest
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GenBank Release 269.0 - NCBI Insights
GenBank release 269.0 (12/16/2025) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 49.73 trillion bases and 6.03 billion records. The current release has: 259,677,058 traditional records cont...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
49 trillion new bases of sequence for AI genome language models to digest
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The face of our long-extinct relative Denisovan Man
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The face of our long-extinct relative Denisovan Man
A groundbreaking step toward upcycling CO2 into useful products using energy- and cost-efficient biological methods
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A synthetic cell-free pathway for biocatalytic upgrading of formate from electrochemically reduced CO2 - Nature Chemical Engineering
Cost-effective, environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient ways to address rising atmospheric CO2 levels are urgently needed. Here the authors combine electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate...
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December 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A groundbreaking step toward upcycling CO2 into useful products using energy- and cost-efficient biological methods
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My forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ has just been sent to the printers. It will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February 2026, by the MIT Press in the U.S. on 17 March 2026, and thereafter in China, Australia, Canada, Holland, India, and beyond.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ has just been sent to the printers. It will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February 2026, by the MIT Press in the U.S. on 17 March 2026, and thereafter in China, Australia, Canada, Holland, India, and beyond.
‘…the U.S. is now squandering an opportunity to reap the benefits of its own technology’ something that we absolutely cannot afford to do.
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Here comes the Sun
Even though 2025 presented many troubling challenges for science, there was a bright spot: It was the first year in which more power was generated worldwide from renewable energy, including wind and s...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
‘…the U.S. is now squandering an opportunity to reap the benefits of its own technology’ something that we absolutely cannot afford to do.
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How the exposome leaves its own distinct somatic mutational signatures on cancer cell genomes
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Somatic evolution following cancer treatment in normal tissue - Nature
High-depth sequencing of non-cancerous tissue from patients with metastatic cancer reveals single-base mutational signatures of alcohol, smoking and cancer treatments, and reveals how exogenous factor...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How the exposome leaves its own distinct somatic mutational signatures on cancer cell genomes
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Cones of heat can act as thermal beacons for beetles- a strategy that evolved long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors
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Heat-seeking beetles drawn to plants that glow in infrared
Pollinators’ antennae act like thermal cameras to spot self-heating plants
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December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Cones of heat can act as thermal beacons for beetles- a strategy that evolved long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors
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