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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Medicine Nobel Prize 2026: Cellular Light Switch That Rewired Neuroscience
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was today awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics: the discovery of light-gated...
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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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Anthropic’s Bioweapons Nightmare is No Longer Theoretical, Well Almost!
Anthropic’s latest threat report has turned one of AI safety’s most uncomfortable hypotheticals into a real-world problem: frontier AI is already being used for advanced...
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Deepmind’s New Hypothesis Generator: AlphaGenome Atlas Maps Hidden Regulatory Code of the Human Genome
Google Deepmind is making public their extensive AlphaGenome Atlas database. A collection of precomputed predictions made using the AlphaGenome Atlas model that predicts the result...
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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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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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