Anthropic sets up wet lab in SF Bay Area for rare disease research
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-09-19
Per Reuters, Anthropic has established a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area for physical biology work, aiming to unlock treatments for rare diseases—moving its research beyond in silico evaluations. The news was cited in response to skeptics who doubted AI could ever access gene-tech labs.
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