Anthropic sets up Bay Area wet lab to pursue rare disease treatments, per Reuters
granawkins · x · 2026-09-18
Per Reuters (flagged by MTSlive, amplified by granawkins), Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area for physical biology work, aiming to unlock treatments for rare diseases. The move signals its research has gone beyond in silico evaluations into hands-on experimentation — a rare step for an AI lab pushing into life sciences.
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