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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Anthropic's life sciences team reports on research partnerships with BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group, with case studies spanning modality engineering, hit generation, lead optimisation, manufacturing filings, company creation and clinical trial planning, plus its own drug discovery programmes.
8 min · 1,874 words
Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
Eric Topol on two new papers (Nature and Cell) arguing loss of cell identity is a central driver of human aging—what the Gladyshev and Izpisua Belmonte teams found and why it matters for longevity science.
8 min · 1,753 words
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
9 min · 2,113 words
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
7 min · 1,610 words
Do birds have accents? The fascinating regional differences in birdsong
Zoologist Louise Gentle explains how birdsong dialects vary by region—why accents form, how they spread, and what they reveal about learning and culture in birds.
4 min · 910 words
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Medicine–led research finds the human brain is two distinct organs—the cerebrum and the brainstem—opening new avenues for studying diseases that selectively affect the brainstem.
5 min · 1,248 words