
Alex Pearlman
Contributor and Researcher at Freelance
Words on bioethics, biohacking, health policy. Formerly @petrieflom @medialab @pennmehp @ginkgo. Telling stories about space drugs @vardaspace. Opinions mine.
Articles
-
Nov 20, 2024 |
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Alex Pearlman
Video FlashSeriously, they can’t wait for the movie to be out in the world. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have been on the road promoting the Wicked movie for a month, and one thing’s for certain: they’re as excited as you are for it to be in cinemas.
-
Nov 18, 2024 |
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Alex Pearlman
Throughout its 21-year history, there has never been a disabled actor to play Nessarose in Wicked. That changes with the release of Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation, in which Marissa Bode stars in the role, alongside Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Ariana Grande as Glinda, Ethan Slater as Boq, and Andy Nyman as Governor Thropp. It’s a responsibility Bode doesn’t take lightly, as she explained to us at the movie’s New York premiere.
-
Aug 30, 2024 |
growbyginkgo.com | Max G. Levy |Alex Pearlman |Claire Evans
When we talk about the path ahead for synthetic biology, from necessary tech breakthroughs to ambitious policy changes, there is a reason why we call it building the future. Futures don’t manifest in a blink. Scientific understanding inches forward; our capacity to produce with it multiplies. The towers of technology built tomorrow will stand atop materials that exist today.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 3K
- Tweets
- 11K
- DMs Open
- Yes

I’m into this stream of tweets.

Gene editing should never be used for cosmetic, military or performance enhancing use cases. https://t.co/I1mNcoiWbJ

Music was better and clothes were better, public discourse equally bananas though

not sure if clear: 2008 was much, much, much worse, and comparing this weekend to that is a kind of dishonesty so great it should disqualify you from public discourse for at least a few years. (music was great however, and I was actually really happy back then fwiw)

RT @SGRodriques: Monday was my last day as a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. I got my job at the Crick in 2020, almost exactl…