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Parastoo Khoshakhlagh Is Teaching Cells to Skip the Waiting
The GC Therapeutics co-founder has moved from neural gels to spaceflight to a library for programming cell fate. Her recurring move is simple to describe and difficult to execute: turn biology's long recipes into instructions.
GC Therapeutics Wants to Turn a Four-Day Cell Recipe Into Medicine at Scale
The Harvard spinout says its TFome platform can compress months of stem-cell differentiation into four days. Now it has to prove that programmable cells can survive the far harder journey from an elegant recipe to an approved medicine.
John Craighead’s Second Language Is the Business of Cells
He trained in cell biology, learned to read biotech through markets and corporate strategy, and now leads Syntax Bio as it turns a laboratory insight into a repeatable process.
Syntax Bio
Syntax Bio is a Chicago synthetic biology company building Cellgorithm, a CRISPR-based platform that programs stem cells to differentiate on command. Instead of coaxing stem cells into specialized cell types through months of manual, growth-factor-heavy protocols, Cellgorithm encodes the sequence of gene activations that mimic human development into a single DNA program, collapsing timelines from months to weeks. Spun out of the University of Illinois Chicago and formerly known as Cellgorithmics, the company has raised more than $25 million and is advancing a pancreatic beta cell therapy for type 1 diabetes while partnering with biopharma to program cells at scale.