I scratched my own itch and asked Claude to write a simple tool to label vials and design 96+ well plates without writing a single line of code. Incredible results with almost no effort aside from requesting Claude to "add feature X" simplelabtools.com

Polyguanine microsatellites are robust replication clocks in cancer - Nature Genetics Cancer phylogenetic trees describe the evolutionary relationship between primary tumors and metastatic sites. A study now shows that mutations in guanine homopolymer microsatellites represent accurate...

It was a pleasure to write a news/views piece with Ben Izar on an elegant paper from @mblohmer.bsky.social, Kamila Naxerova and others on using microsatellites to precisely time events in cancer evolution. @naturegenet.bsky.social

Forest fires in Inwood Hill Park today and Palisades park last week. Crazy times in nyc.

His “ignorance” seminar was my favorite class in college.