Niche construction in the biomanufacturing valley of death

The thing about the valley of death is you have to wander it

Published on American Wetware • May 1

January 2026

The dialectic of sucking

Everywhere sucks. Now what?

Jan 8 • Christina Agapakis

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September 2025

Vibe coding a genome

AI designed DNA is coming into focus

Sep 26, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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July 2025

The structure of metascientific revolutions

“How do scientists proceed when aware only that something has gone fundamentally wrong at a level with which their training has not equipped them to…

Jul 12, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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May 2025

Hundreds of daily decisions

Part 2 in a collaborative series on taste and science

May 21, 2025 • Christina Agapakis and Anna Marie Wagner

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Taste all the way down

Part 1 in a collaborative series about taste and science

May 7, 2025 • Christina Agapakis and Anna Marie Wagner

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March 2025

On the "lack of progress" in biology

How is the "century of biology" going so far?

Mar 22, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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AI as feminist technology

A conversation with Claude

Mar 9, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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Symbiotic machines

Do we have to understand to create?

Mar 7, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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February 2025

The thought terminating cliches of “public engagement” in science

Opening up at Asilomar

Feb 27, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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January 2025

Branding discipline

What's in a name?

Jan 6, 2025 • Christina Agapakis

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November 2024

“It’s humbling every time we train on years of effort”

Conjuring new science from the collective wisdom of the past

Nov 11, 2024 • Christina Agapakis

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