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This newsletter (mostly) features short essays about biotechnology, life, and travel. It is produced with Rostra.ai, a company leveraging quorums of AI models to accelerate human-powered discoveries.

Niko McCarty is a former bioengineer and genetic engineer at Caltech, Imperial College, and elsewhere. He was previously a data journalist at the Simons Foundation and is currently founding editor of Asimov Press and co-founder of Rostra.