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  • AI Predicts Protein Structures for 2,800+ Viruses in Open Database

    Mahboob I | September 25, 2026
  • Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages

    Mahboob I | September 24, 2026
  • Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter Dies at 79 in San Diego

    Mahboob I | April 30, 2026
  • Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine claims to surpass Alphafold 3 in all benchmarks

    Mahboob I | March 14, 2026
  • BoltzGen Arrives at Ariax Bio: Design Antibodies and Binders

    Mahboob I | November 14, 2025
  • James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA structure, has died at age 97

    Mahboob I | November 8, 2025
  • OpenFold3 Released: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Structure Prediction of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Drugs

    Mahboob I | October 29, 2025
  • BenchSci enters into strategic partnership with @thermofisher Scientific to develop AI-enabled tools

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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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Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI

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 AI Automated Labs

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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12 Biology Challenges as millenium problems

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 Bioweapons uses

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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AlphaGenome Human Disease prediction Atlas by DeepMind

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...

Drug design

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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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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Instaflux media preparation kit

Thermo Fisher’s New InstaFlux Brings Media-on-Demand to Food Microbiology Labs

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced this week the launch of new integrated media-on-demand enrichment workflow called the InstaFlux, aimed at easing work at food microbiology...

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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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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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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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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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Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Tribrid™ Apex and Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Excedion™ mass spectrometers

Thermo Fisher’s ASMS 2026 Lineup: Orbitrap Tribrid Apex and Excedion Mark the Biggest Orbitrap Refresh Since Astral

Thermo Fisher Scientific unveil two a top-end Orbitrap mass spectrometers at the  American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2026 conference in San Diego — the...

Blog

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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