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Biology: the line so far
7 developments, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Google unveils Gemini-based 'AI co-scientist' with lab-validated hypotheses
It marked the shift from AI as a prediction tool to AI as a hypothesis generator inside the research loop, the model later scaled up by agentic science efforts.
- MIT team uses generative AI to design new antibiotics active against gonorrhoea and MRSA
It is among the clearest demonstrations of generative chemistry producing new-scaffold antibiotics that work in animals, a field starved of new drug classes.
- Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn for its AI drug-design engine
It is among the largest bets yet that AI can shorten drug discovery, though the company still has no drug in human trials.
- DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas scoring all 9bn single-letter human DNA changes
Free, precomputed variant-effect predictions lower the barrier for clinical genetics and rare-disease research worldwide.
- Insilico doses first patients in Phase III trial of AI-discovered drug rentosertib
It is the first hard test of whether AI-discovered drugs can show efficacy at the scale regulators require for approval.
- Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
It shows a frontier lab running end-to-end discovery with its own wet lab, raising both the promise and the biosecurity questions of agentic biology.
- Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature
It offers DNA-synthesis screeners a way to verify that unfamiliar sequences came from vetted models, a practical biosecurity layer for open protein design.