From Apartment Worm Lab to UCSF: Founder Launches C5R to Bring AI Into Real Biology Labs

sdand · x · 2026-09-25

A developer shared his transition: 18 months ago he went all-in on biology, building a worm lab in his apartment before joining one at UCSF.

He observed that while models kept advancing in the virtual world, they fell short in real lab settings — so he started C5R to fix that gap between AI and wet-lab work.

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