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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Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter Dies at 79 in San Diego
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Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine claims to surpass Alphafold 3 in all benchmarks
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BoltzGen Arrives at Ariax Bio: Design Antibodies and Binders
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James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA structure, has died at age 97
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OpenFold3 Released: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Structure Prediction of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Drugs
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BenchSci enters into strategic partnership with @thermofisher Scientific to develop AI-enabled tools
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Researchers at University College London Treat Huntingtons with Gene Therapy for the Very First Time
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Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $1 billion to extend human lifespan
Mahboob I | January 25, 2025
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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New Startup Pumpkinseed Aims to Read the Proteome Letter by Letter, on a Chip
Pumpkinseed Technologies came out of stealth-funding mode this week with a $20 million Series A led by Future Ventures and NfX, capital it intends to...
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Qitan Tech vs Oxford Nanopore: Inside the Two-Horse Race for the Future of Nanopore Sequencing
For more than a decade, Oxford Nanopore Technologies was effectively alone in the commercial nanopore DNA sequencing, a market that it created. All that changed...
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Spectrometers in Smartwatch Made Possible with Micro-vortices in Thermoplastic Polymers
Researchers at College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University used an ultrafast laser to write “micro-vortices” — swirl-like structural patterns — directly into polycarbonate...
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Biomni Lab Adds GeneCards Data to Power Grounded Biomedical AI Queries
Phylo’s is strengthening its flagship product, Biomni Lab, by integrating GeneCards data, the widely used human gene knowledge base, directly into its agentic research environment....
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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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Waters’ New omniDAWN™ MALS Photometer Bridges the Gap Between UHPLC Speed and Advanced Biologics Characterization
Waters Corporation has announced the launch of its omniDAWN™ Multi-Angle Light Scattering (MALS) Photometer aimed at converging the gap between high-speed chromatography and advanced molecular...
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Shimadzu Nexis GC-2060: A 70-Year Legacy Culminates in a New Flagship Gas Chromatograph
Gas chromatography is one of those analytical techniques that doesn’t get a lot of headlines outside specialist circles — until a manufacturer manages to genuinely...
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Amazon Bio Discovery: Latest Entrant Aiming to Rewire the Antibody Discovery Pipeline
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today introduced BioDiscovery, a platform designed to unify biological data processing, AI model development, and scalable experimentation workflows within a single...
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The Day Biology Changed Forever: Why April 14th Matters in the Story of the Human Genome
Sixteen years ago today on April 14, 2003, one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors in history reached its defining milestone. The Human Genome Project—a...
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Medra.ai Gets a Boots to Forsee the Future of AI Drug Discovery
The race to reinvent drug discovery is accelerating—and Medra.ai is quickly emerging as a key player. Following a $52 million funding round, the company is...
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Automated NMR Gets its High-Throughput Moment with Sub $25 Analysis
A new pipeline marries de novo protein design with robotic sample prep and NMR spectroscopy — producing atomic-resolution data at a pace that was unthinkable...
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Chem-Impex Launches ‘Next Big Thing in Science’ Fellowship for Early-Career Peptide Researchers
Chem-Impex launches a 6-week fellowship for early-career peptide researchers — offering mentorship, visibility, and a chance to advance their science.
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Ginkgo Bioworks Takes a Step Closer to Experiments-as-a-Service with AI Integration
If you thought your not so comfortable wet lab jobs were safe, think again. The launch of the Cloud Lab platform by Ginkgo Bioworks represents...
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Eubiota Launches First Modular Agentic AI for Microbiome Discovery
Eubiota launches the first modular agentic AI for autonomous microbiome discovery — combining reinforcement learning with experimental validation.
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Claude Scientific Skills: Turning AI Agents into Research Powerhouses
This open-source project gives AI coding assistants superpowers for scientific research — from drug discovery to genomic analysis.
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New Printing Tech Materializes 3D Objects Inside Living Cells
Researchers from Slovenia demonstrate the first successful 3D printing of microscopic structures directly inside living human cells — opening doors to intracellular machines.
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Isomorphic Lab’s New Drug Design Engine Promises to Outdo AlphaFold 3
Isomorphic Labs is giving researchers a glimpse of its latest AI-driven drug discovery platform: the Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine (IsoDDE) promising significant improvements in...
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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Launches Biomek i3 Benchtop Liquid Handling System
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has announced the Biomek i3 Benchtop Liquid Handler, expanding its long-standing Biomek automation platform into the low- to medium-throughput segment. The...
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