AI in Research

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

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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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Human Longevity Drops a $599 Clinical-Grade Genome

Less than two weeks after the death of its co-founder Dr. J. Craig Venter on April 29, 2026, Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) has launched a...

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AI-Designed Ribosomes Attempt to Strip a Letter From the Alphabet of Life

In a study published last month in Science, a team led by Harris H. Wang at Columbia University, with collaborators at MIT and Harvard, used...

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OpenAI Enters the AI-Bio Arms Race with GPT-Rosalind

OpenAI has officially unveiled GPT-Rosalind — its first frontier reasoning model purpose-built for biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Named after the British chemist Rosalind...

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CRADLE-1 De-novo drug design

CRADLE-1 Seeks to Rewrite the Economics of Protein Engineering

Drug discovery has two big machine learning stories: The first — de novo design, where AI conjures entirely new protein binders from scratch — has...

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