The Lab

Bringing accelerated adaptation to life.

Six members of the Nurture team in the lab, beside a bench with culture flasks and a microscope.

What we do

The epigenome is a dynamic system. Some changes encode memory. Others are causal for what comes next.

The lab builds and validates the tooling required to measure and remodel both.

A scientist looking through a microscope at the lab bench.

Why it exists

The lab is where the models meet real systems. Tellus predicts which epigenomic changes should matter. The lab finds out whether they do.

Every experiment produces perturbation data that sharpens the next prediction. That loop is how the epigenome becomes actionable.

A scientist working with culture plates inside a biosafety cabinet.
A scientist loading samples with a multichannel pipette.

Where we work

We work in yeast and plants today for speed. They close the loop in weeks. The tooling is built to be extensible across species.

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Partnerships

The lab is open to partnerships with companies building focused epigenomic perturbation data. What would you hope the lab could bring to life for you?

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Journal

Notes from Nurture

  • What Payments Taught Me About Genomic Data

    My family started a water delivery business and needed a way to take money for the water, so I built the checkout.

  • Visualizing the Biological Clock of the Human Brain

    This paper released whole-genome bisulfite methylation and RNA expression across years of organoid culture to public repositories. Often “public” and “explorable” are not the same thing. We rebuilt that afternoon into a few clicks.

  • One Genome, Many Biological States

    Nearly every cell in the body shares one genome, yet a neuron and a bone cell could not behave more differently. What the epigenome explains, what it doesn't, and where the field goes next.

  • Nature, Nurture, and the Shape of DNA

    A question about avocados became an epigenomics company. Nurture's founders on cellular memory, the chasm between the promise of the epigenome and the tools to work in it, and what they're building to cross it.