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A cell from an old human and a cell from an old nematode are separated by roughly 800 million years of evolution. Their organs, lifespans and sets of active genes are not directly comparable. The team
On July 28, the contract research organization ICON announced a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic. The company intends to embed Claude into Orbis, its secure agentic platform for trial work. The
On July 28 the Buck Institute and orthopedic surgeon Vonda Wright announced the Move the Mountain campaign. Its goal is to raise $79 million and create a Vonda Wright Women's Health Foundation at the
A quantum processor can help chemists select a huge but still finite set of a molecule's electronic configurations. An ordinary supercomputer then diagonalizes the Hamiltonian within that set and
On July 29, OpenAI launched the ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program: this summer it will give free access to its frontier models and work tools to 10,000 scientists at selected universities.
On 18 July, the researcher Alex Wissner-Gross proposed the term "Frontier Liberation Front". He described a movement that keeps the leading edge of technology accessible: powerful capabilities are
When a company shows how its AI found a molecule or predicted a drug property, comparing that result with anyone else's is next to impossible. Teams use different data, different rules for selecting
On July 29, Johnson & Johnson announced agreements with Sail Biomedicines: $785 million in upfront payments, $465 million of it into the company's equity, and an exclusive option to acquire Sail for
On 28 July Randy Davila posted a preprint on the Havel–Hakimi residue of common-divisor graphs. It claims an asymptotic formula for a quantity that can be read off from a single list of vertex
On August 1, Carnegie Mellon researcher Simon DeDeo described a pilot in which three parallel runs of GPT‑5.6 Sol were given his earlier papers, access to a 32-core machine, and CMU's ORCHARD
An antibody recognizes its target by a patch of its surface — the epitope. In therapeutic discovery this becomes a huge selection problem: there is a library of antibodies, there is a target protein,
The Talus Bioscience team has posted the Ptarmigan-1 preprint to bioRxiv — a model that ranks small molecules for a protein from its amino-acid sequence and a two-dimensional notation of the chemical
