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Nico Prandi

@nico-prandi.bsky.social

🧬 Synthetic biologist interested in using nature to make human manufacturing more sustainable. Also keeping an eye on art and design applications. Currently working in Colorifix 🎨 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ(any pronouns)

36 Followers  |  68 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 20.11.2024  |  1.7958

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I got to see The Bagβ„’ in person during our visit to Modern Synthesis.
Made by bacterial nanocellulose, it is refreshing to see how wide the applications of biomaterials can be! #modernsynthesis
#biomaterials #sustainablefashion #biotechnology

14.03.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a lot of fun at our 2nd in-person meeting for Sustainable Style UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Award with Northumbria University collaborators and Colorifix coming to Imperial before we all headed to Modern Synthesis to see bacterial cellulose being made into exciting textiles.

13.03.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fine art at the Centre for #SyntheticBiology in Imperial college. I wonder how much it’s valued…

13.03.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They claimed to be making a safer crossing and they removed it in favour of a more dangerous one... Really scary both as a pedestrian and a cyclist as you cannot see the cars coming out of the roundabout.

10.03.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Changes at Colney Lane make junction more dangerous for cycling Now that parts of the junction are nearing completion we can see just how dangerous these changes are for anyone not in a car

The Colney Lane roundabout has hit the news again, with @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social saying our latest video "should be used as training material for designers to show them everything that's bad about UK roundabout design".

Read the full story:
www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/changes-at-c...

10.03.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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My and my partner (also a biotech) won a 3D printer in a competition. The very first thing we print? Single falcon tube holders of course!
So clichΓ¨ but makes me wonder about this I untackled market niche…

07.03.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Excited to attend this as in years of science I could not find queer scientists in the wild!

21.02.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

04.02.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 21054    πŸ” 6137    πŸ’¬ 599    πŸ“Œ 209
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Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome - Nature Communications The Sc2.0 project involved synthesis and debugging of 16 chromosomes, and a tRNA neochromosome. Here the authors descript the SynXVI project, accompanied by an analysis of how similar projects could o...

BIG news in synthetic biology!!! πŸ”¬β€¦and it’s actually very tiny. The world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome is complete! The final chromosome in a synthetic yeast genome for baker’s yeast was completed by the Sc2.0 project.

04.02.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If they mention the plasmid at all... πŸ«₯

04.02.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‡ This! Papers using new plasmids should report full plasmid sequences in the SI. Without this, the work cannot be reproduced. Now that @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social and others can quickly and inexpensively sequence whole plasmids, there is no excuse!

03.02.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Most of the scientists on Twitter I followed stopped posting around July 2024. But then they are not here either… 404 scientists not found 😫

24.01.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that πŸ˜‰)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

24.01.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 15537    πŸ” 2395    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 119

Following the thread as sadly I’ll have to miss it this year

21.11.2024 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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