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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
I am greatly enjoying #TheTreeofLife by @maxjtelford.bsky.social published by @wwnorton.com, which I am reviewing for @wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I tremendously enjoyed Matthew Cobb’s definitive new biography of Crick. It was hard to put down and provides many new perspectives. My review of it will appear in Science later this week.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
October 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Molecular machine learning in action in the Stanford-Arc generative antibody design collaboration.
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It was a great pleasure to attend The Agentic AI 3rd Innovation Summit in Boston, organized by nference. It is not every day that you can hear George Church being interviewed by a bot.
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I have just submitted my review of Matthew Cobb’s @matthewcobb.bsky.social excellent new biography of Francis Crick published by @profilebooks.bsky.social to Science magazine @science.org. I have to say that I greatly enjoyed it. It is set to become the definitive account of Crick’s work and life.
October 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
An engineered living materials based fabrication platform
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
De novo antibody design has arrived
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I greatly enjoyed reading Robin Choudhary’s new book the ‘Beating Heart’, which I reviewed for The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m greatly enjoying the meticulously researched new Crick biography by @matthewcobb.bsky.social published by @profilebooks.bsky.social in November, which I am reviewing for @science.org. It’s set to become the definitive biography of the mercurial, enigmatic and brilliant Francis Crick.
September 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Looking forward to tucking into Matthew Cobb’s meticulously research new biography of Francis Crick @matthewcobb.bsky.social which I am reviewing for @science.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Received the cover design for my new book ‘On the Future of Species’ which is about the convergence of AI-informed genome design and genome synthesis. It will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February 2026 and by the MIT Press in the U.S. a few months later.
August 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We have neglected our ‘artificial children’ De Kai states in his excellent new book Raising AI. Like errant children, AIs need to be provided with a moral compass and will need to be made mindful if we wish them to embody Enlightenment values. My review of his book is published today in Science.
July 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My review of Matt Ridley’s @mattwridley excellent new book on #sexualselection #evolution #BirdsSex&Beauty @harpercollins.bsky.social published in @wsj.com @wallstreetjournal.bsky.com #mind @GeorginaCapel
April 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My review of Henry Gee’s @endofthepier.bsky.social new book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire’ in @science.org
March 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Artificial Biological Intelligence (ABI) is the ability: (i) to predict the phenotype computed by a genome, (ii) to define a genome sequence capable of computing a phenotype, (iii) to construct a genome sequence of desired content, and (iv) to ‘boot up’ a genome. It will become biology’s North Star.
March 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reviewing Birds, Sex, and Beauty by @mattwridley @georginacapel @harpercollins.bsky.social for @wsj.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Reviewing Henry Gee’s @theendofthepier.bsky.social new book #TheDeclineAndFallOfTheHumanEmpire published by @panmacmillan.bsky.social for Science magazine @science.org
December 1, 2024 at 5:14 PM
December 1, 2024 at 5:08 PM