Editas Medicine (EDIT) traded higher on Thursday after Australian authorities cleared a Phase 1/2 trial for the company’s gene-editing therapy EDIT-401, and Wells Fargo upgraded the biotech to ...

Anthropic, the AI and research giant behind Claude, last month said its biology research lab had used AI agents to discover ...

A digital fruit fly brain quickly became an AI meme machine. It raises tough questions: could machines become conscious, and ...

Epigenetics has spent the past two decades promising to rewrite the rules of biology. The idea that chemical tags sitting on top of DNA can switch genes on and off, that these tags can be shaped by ...

AI company Anthropic announced last week that its flagship model Claude had identified a new type of enzyme. But a researcher ...

Boost ROI by aligning models with clinical goals, standardizing validation and data, using auditable AI, improving reproducibility and welfare, and adopting organoid and computational ...

Anthropic said on Wednesday that its signature AI model, Claude, had “autonomously” discovered the system at the prompting of researchers working at the company’s recently established biology research ...

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...

US actor Adam Driver poses during a photocall of the film "Paper Tiger" at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France on May 17, 2026. Sameer AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images ...

Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter. Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox.