A small, cracker-themed block puzzle I cloned and polished for my four-year-old — built in plain vanilla JavaScript with synthesised audio, a Three.js bloom backdrop, and a deliberately forgiving combo…
I rebuilt two published CHO cell-culture papers — a hybrid ODE + machine-learning growth model, and a genome-scale metabolic reduction pipeline — as an interactive digital twin that runs in…
The Every Company and Onego Bio are now fighting over recombinant ovalbumin in courts on two continents. The way this case resolves will shape how broadly IP rights can be…
What I wish someone had handed me on discharge day: the biochemistry of warfarin and vitamin K, the food atlas, the drug and herbal interactions, travel, and the daily operating…
Three months ago I started building an Android app to count cells. Today the first public build is up, and I’d like to introduce it properly. It’s called CellSeg, and…
I had severe mitral regurgitation and a blocked coronary artery. On 22 April 2026, surgeons at Royal Papworth replaced my mitral valve with a mechanical prosthesis and bypassed the blocked…
There’s a thing that happens in a tissue culture lab that I’ve never quite gotten used to, even after years of doing it. You pull a sample from a flask…
The Corpus Clock sits at the corner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Unveiled in 2008 by Stephen Hawking, it was designed by inventor John C. Taylor as a meditation on…
If you’ve ever read a paper on lysine production with Corynebacterium glutamicum and thought “right, but what do I actually do on Monday morning when I’m standing in front of…
Look, I’ll be honest. For years I ran bioreactors the way most of us do: set your temperature, set your pH, watch the DO trace, take a sample every few…
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