Biohub: Virtual Cell Bet Gets 1.8 Billion
Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, Meta, the US Department of Energy and NIH are investing in Biohub’s Virtual Biology Initiative. The money will primarily be invested...
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Machine learning applied to scientific work, from foundation models for biology to AI agents that run experiments.
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Novo Nordisk is Putting Claude Directly into Pharma R&D
Novo Nordisk has spent several years experimenting with AI across pharmaceutical development just like most other multinational pharma companies. On September 16, 2026, Novo’s management...
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Stanford Builds a Virtual Drug Discovery Factory With 37,000 AI Agents
A biotech company with 37,000 employees would normally require humongous offices, extensive laboratories, clinical teams and computational scientists with an enormous operating budget. Stanford researchers...
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Millennium Problems for Biology: Where they Currently Stand and What’s Missing
A fresh list of 12 problems was announced by Edison Science and Future House last week, sans the 1 million prize that millenium problems in...
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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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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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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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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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