A Biologist's Guide to Life
Alex Washburne's efforts to make sense of Life. Click to read A Biologist's Guide to Life, by Alex Washburne, PhD, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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2026 27
- A Biologist’s Guide to Self-Replicating AI
- The Bioweapons Problem
- The Irkutsk Plague
- Should we aerosolize ebola to test vaccines?
- Managing Technological Risks
- Everyone is Wrong about COVID Origins
- Unanswered Questions on COVID Origins
- The Origins of the Coverup
- The long-range risk of bioweapons
- You are an Eigenthing
- The US can lose the modern tech arms race
- You are the atomic stardust you eat
- The Mysterious Origins of Ebola
- Genomic Surveillance for Bioattribution and Outbreak Response
- The Biggest Challenge for AI Biodesign Tools
- The Time Value of Epidemiological Data
- Your mom gave you ocean bacterial cooties
- Wildlife Infectious Disease Biology Is Important
- A Biologist's Guide to Bioattribution
- Please Support a Hero if you can
- Investing in the AI Future
- A Biologist's Guide to Biotech
- Denouncing Depravity
- The Age of Tinkering is Upon Us
- Automating Biology
- Biology and the evolution of AI tools
- The Credibility Crux of COVID Origins
2025 15
- The Evolutionary Scales of Life
- Feliz Noche Buena!
- We are failing to learn the lessons of COVID
- Accelerating American Scientific Enterprise
- Data Deficits
- The Waning Power of Outrage
- Genesis Mission challenges for biotechnology
- Unsolved Problems in Biosafety
- Ralph Baric is Innocent
- A Biologist's Guide to Information
- We may know the Origins of COVID
- Scientific Risk Management
- I Told You So, Prometheus
- The Health of our People
- Kudos to a DIA analysis