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Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab

By Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman

Sep 21 2026 6:45AM

As it ramps AI drug program.

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab

Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug ⁠science. At a time when ⁠fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the ...

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