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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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lab equipment automation standards

Lab Automation Lacks a Common Language — and It’s Holding Science Back

Lab automation in 2026 is predicted to outgrow conventional lab workflows. It reduces the need for skilled labor, reduces costs and ensure reproducability of results....

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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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AXELIOS

Roche AXELIOS 1 Review Against the High-Throughput Pack

Roche launched the AXELIOS 1 platform yesterday, moving its sequencing-by-expansion (SBX) technology from years of early access at sites like the Broad and Hartwig into...

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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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Laser Phase Plate Becomes Reality: Biohub and Berkeley Solve Cryo-EM’s 80-Year Contrast Problem with a Laser

After more than fifteen years of being dismissed as theoretically elegant but practically impossible, the laser phase plate (LPP) has been built, installed in a...

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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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