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Benchling Blog
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Benchling Blog is the company blog at benchling.com, writing about science and ai. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Blog of Benchling, a software company for biology labs. HN commenters link its CRISPR tools page and posts about lab software, mostly alongside hiring notes and product mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Benchling is a cloud-based platform for biotechnology research and development and the only biology-first platform for scientific data, collaboration, and insights.
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Benchling (YC S12 - https://www.benchling.com/careers/ ) is excited to attend! Stop by and chat with us if you're curious about applying software engineering to biology.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Submitted Rebuild Biotech for the AI Era as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe've collected a number of the various Cas variants into Pinecone if anyone wants to play around with the proteins [1]. In this article they speak of cheap detection, but in some sense those are the natural technological requirements or outcomes of their much more powerful editors (you have to be able to 'see' the results of what you've edited in order to more efficiently edit). In order to better edit, nice readou…
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on “Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika”Submitted Can LLMs work in the wet lab? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelatedly, if you're an engineer looking to build the software that powers CRISPR[0], Benchling (YC S12) is hiring! Most of the major research organizations working with CRISPR leverage Benchling -- the Broad Institute, various labs at Berkeley, companies like Editas, etc. Shoot me an email: josh at benchling dot com [0] https://benchling.com/crispr
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on “Hacking DNA: CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive”Submitted AI in Biotech in 2026 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a list of startups that have a positive social impact while still paying competitive salaries and showing promising growth: Fintech: Forage ( https://www.joinforage.com ), building Stripe for EBT, i.e. food stamps Nearside ( https://www.nearside.com ), banking for small businesses KeeperTax ( https://www.keepertax.com ), tax savings for independent contractors Bio/Pharma/Healthcare: Q Bio ( https://q.bio ), c…
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on “Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact”I have a question not related to the performance: can you share more details about your UI stack and dev workflows (do you use something more than e.g: webpack and babel)? Looking at the screenshots at the homepage [0], your app looks both complex and cool :). Also any recommendations for performant charting/graphing library that plays well with React? What do you use for state management? Flux, alt, redux, somethin…
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on “Performance Engineering with React, Part 1”Some interesting companies at the intersection of science/engineering that are hiring software devs: - https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/ Synthetic biology engineering - https://www.benchling.com/ Online LIMS - https://neuralink.com/ Brain Machine Interface - https://strateos.com/ Programmatic Cloud Lab (disclaimer, I work here)
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on “Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research?”https://benchling.com/crispr
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on “The genetic code now has a workable text editor”We have a lot of friends building genetic design software. Each have slightly different focuses. Ours is primarily, and I think uniquely, focused on an abstraction above the DNA itself (protein construct design). We focus on biological function of the output of the DNA rather than the 'assembly code' of DNA itself. For better or worse, we're a 'C IDE' rather than an assembly editor. If you are skilled enough to read…
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on “Show HN: Pinecone – Build your own genetically-encoded tools”Wait what? > Biology usually doesn't work. No. This is not true. Biology usually works, it's that the most interesting academic things tend to be on the bleeding edge, and that's where things are not robust. Of course, I'm not saying that there isn't debugging to be done, but it's not THAT hard. I'm doing something relatively difficult literally in my garage right now (growing a strain with a doubling time of about…
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on “Biotech in the Garage”Unfortunately, software has not much advanced beyond where it was ten years ago. There have been a lot of attempts, but the fact is that it's very difficult to see returns on mass-market scientific software - the market is relatively small compared to the likes of Snapchat. The software tooling certainly makes it easier to make the scientific tools - but you still have to earn enough to support a company (and compet…
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on “Show HN: Web app for DNA sequence manipulation and PCR Primer design”