Cambridge lab uses Google's Co-Scientist to compress 2-3 years of research into 6 months
vivnat · x · 2026-10-08
Google DeepMind detailed how Professor Clare Bryant's lab at the University of Cambridge uses Co-Scientist to speed up infectious disease research. She fed in a grant proposal summary on flu in birds and humans; the tool generated ranked hypotheses, including unfamiliar ones. After adding the full proposal and unpublished confidential data, it prioritized a protein she hadn't considered and progressively narrowed hypotheses from candidate proteins down to specific amino acids. Identifying precise amino acid targets normally takes 2-3 years of experiments; her lab is now on track to finish in six months, if the AI-guided targets are correct.
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