AI in Research

Machine learning applied to scientific work, from foundation models for biology to AI agents that run experiments.

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AI Biodesign Accelerator: Moving From Blind Prediction to Guided Experimentation

Allen Institute just announced a new AI Biodesign Collaborative Accelerator in collaboration with University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Following the AIxBio trend,...

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Lab automation

Universal Lab Hardware Communication Standard for AI by Anthropic

Anthropic just gave a sneak peek into its newest hardware communication standard that allows AI to work better with automation in wet laboratories. Currently being...

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Virtual Human Cell Lines

GenBio AI Unveils a Breakthrough World Model for Simulating Human Cells

On August 18, 2026, Palo Alto-based GenBio AI announced the preview release of the first general-purpose simulator and world model of the human cell called...

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One person biotech company

The Rise of the One-Person Pharma Company

AI can now design a molecule, a cloud lab can make and test it, and a regulatory on-ramp exists to put it into a patient....

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OpenScience vs Claude Science

OpenScience vs. Claude Science: Two Takes on the AI Science Workbench

Two “AI workbenches for scientists” launched within a week of each other: Claude Science (Anthropic) is a proprietary app built around Claude models, whereas OpenScience...

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LifeSciBench: OpenAI’s Hard New Life-Science Benchmark — and How GPT-Rosalind Stacks Up

OpenAI just released LifeSciBench, a 750-task, expert-written, expert-reviewed benchmark that tries to measure whether AI can actually do real life-science research work — not just...

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BoltzMol-1, BoltzProt-1 and the Boltz API: AI Drug Discovery Goes Full-Stack

The MIT-born co-folding lab just shipped a small-molecule hit-discovery pipeline, a protein-design pipeline, and a production API on the same day — moving from “we...

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Google DeepMind’s Co-Scientist Graduates from Research Demo to Nature Paper

Google DeepMind has formally introduced Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI partner for hypothesis generation, with a new paper in Nature and an experimental rollout to individual...

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