Red Queen Bio Uses AI and Wet Labs to Build Medicines Against Natural and Synthetic Viruses

_sholtodouglas · x · 2026-09-28

Red Queen Bio, working with WSJ reporter Georgia Wells, shared new details of its mission: pairing AI with heavy wet-lab work to create medicines that prepare for both natural and synthetic viruses in advance — pieces of a "bio-shield" coming together. Author sholtodouglas also plugs Hannu Rajaniemi, the company founder behind it, and his acclaimed sci-fi trilogy The Quantum Thief (reviewed by Gwern).

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