Lauren washburn
lwash.bsky.social
Lauren washburn
@lwash.bsky.social
Chemical Biology | Assay Development Scientist
TX —> CA
Reposted by Lauren washburn
1/ Check out our newest paper where we ask: How fast can we experimentally discover binders from scratch?

And we mean scratch: a blinded study.

TLDR: 26 days. And the binders work…and led to new cancer biology.

We’re coming for you AI….

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Lauren washburn
Continuous directed evolution of cyclic peptides in cells to inhibit protein aggregation. From Tina Wang et al. #chembio #ChemSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid discovery of cyclic peptide protein aggregation inhibitors by continuous selection - Nature Chemical Biology
A platform for the continuous selection of protein aggregation inhibitors from genetically encoded cyclic peptide libraries in Escherichia coli was developed. This platform was used to discover cyclic...
www.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Obligatory first post so you know I’m real! I’ll be here, reading your biotech posts and all of your chemical biology and assay papers 🧬🧪
December 3, 2024 at 5:56 AM