Anthropic Pays $400M for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio — fewer than 10 employees, eight months old — for $400 million in stock. The play: making Claude the default AI for drug discovery.
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Basecamp Research Launches Trillion Gene Atlas to Design Drugs With AI
Partnering with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, and PacBio, the startup aims to sequence 100 million species and train AI models that can design therapeutics from a disease prompt.
The Race to Put AI-Designed Antibodies Into Clinical Trials
Multiple biotech companies are sprinting to bring the first fully AI-designed antibody drugs to human testing. Here's how they're doing it and what it could mean for medicine.
Caltech's Sidewinder Method Achieves 1-in-a-Million DNA Assembly Accuracy
New DNA construction technique improves error rates by 10,000x, enabling practical genome-scale synthesis for medicine and biotech
Genome Processing Cost Drops From $100 to Under $1
Ecotone AI's open-source framework makes population-scale DNA analysis economically viable for the first time.
AI Agent Teams Are Running Biomedical Research Autonomously
Nature Biotechnology paper describes 'in silico team science' where AI agent collectives handle literature review, hypothesis generation, and data analysis
Isomorphic Labs Unveils IsoDDE, a Drug Design Engine That Doubles AlphaFold 3's Accuracy
Google DeepMind spinoff claims its unified AI system can identify hidden binding sites and predict drug interactions faster than physics-based methods