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Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö

Peter Ottsjö is a tech journalist and author of the popular science book Evigt Ung (Forever Young), CEO of LEVITY Media Group and co-host of the LEVITY Podcast, Longevity Biotech Fellowship fellow and Vitalist.

Garage drug developer plans to be bigger than Pfizer

Sep 14, 2026

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7 min read

Garage drug developer plans to be bigger than Pfizer

Plus: AlphaFold illuminates “superdark” proteins, Astra surprises chemists, and GenScript seeks $300M to expand its labs.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
An AI-designed drug raises hopes of slowing aging

Sep 10, 2026

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7 min read

An AI-designed drug raises hopes of slowing aging

Plus: Scientists build with Astra, DeepMind maps nine billion DNA changes, and David Baker co-leads a $95M effort to design new biology.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
No human in the loop - AI gets certified to clear mammograms

Sep 3, 2026

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6 min read

No human in the loop - AI gets certified to clear mammograms

Plus: Claude designs proteins but won’t discuss biology, a team of AIs takes on lung-cancer slides, and Om brings “vibe discovery” to Codex.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö

TOP 10

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in August

Sep 2, 2026

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6 min read

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in August

A personalized cancer treatment in Phase 3, a month of autonomous experiments, and a human biological datacenter.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
“Wait, wait, wait. What? Oh my God.”

Aug 31, 2026

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10 min read

“Wait, wait, wait. What? Oh my God.”

Anthropic’s new standard lets AI agents control and coordinate machines across the lab

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
AI-designed DNA switches work inside a mammal

Aug 27, 2026

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5 min read

AI-designed DNA switches work inside a mammal

Plus: Agents take on entire computational biology studies, and $40M goes into the lab-in-the-loop race.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
An AI scientist ran the lab for a month

Aug 24, 2026

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13 min read

An AI scientist ran the lab for a month

Plus: Lady Gaga enters AI x bio, antibody AI gets a CASP-like reality check, and Arc raises the bar for virtual cells.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
An AI-assisted cancer therapy delivers positive Phase 3 results

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

An AI-assisted cancer therapy delivers positive Phase 3 results

Plus: What Claude actually did in Anthropic’s protein-design experiment

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Inside GenBio’s attempt to simulate a human cell

Aug 18, 2026

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12 min read

Inside GenBio’s attempt to simulate a human cell

AIDO Cell is GenBio’s first concrete step toward an AI-Driven Digital Organism - BAIO got an early look at the launch and spoke with co-founder Eric Xing.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
"95% of wet-lab work automated in 5-10 years"

Aug 17, 2026

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8 min read

"95% of wet-lab work automated in 5-10 years"

Plus: protein models get the LLM alignment treatment, AI learns protein motion from missing data, and Benchling puts wet-lab judgment to the test.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
GenBio's masterplan: Using AI to model and simulate biology and life

Aug 13, 2026

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7 min read

GenBio's masterplan: Using AI to model and simulate biology and life

A three-stage blueprint for connecting biological AI models to a digital organism.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Yes, now there's a "human biological datacenter"

Aug 13, 2026

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5 min read

Yes, now there's a "human biological datacenter"

Plus: Aureka raises $100M for a biological world model, and AI cuts years of trial-and-error from prime editing.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö

TOP 10

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in July

Aug 12, 2026

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9 min read

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in July

A Phase III AI drug, a $3.8 billion protein-design startup, living-cell trajectories, and AI redesigning the gene-editing machine.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Hassabis wanted to leave Google according to new report

Aug 10, 2026

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12 min read

Hassabis wanted to leave Google according to new report

Plus: four Google legends launch Discovery Loop, autonomous labs get a blueprint, and Jura finds a scaling law for AI in biology.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
AI did months of biology work in five days

Aug 3, 2026

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10 min read

AI did months of biology work in five days

Plus: GSK backs cell models, AI reopens a cancer trial, and DeepMind breaks up the AlphaFold team.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
The superintelligence test for medical AI

Jul 30, 2026

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7 min read

The superintelligence test for medical AI

Plus: AI hunts for cancer before diagnosis, and Atlas wants to predict who will respond before a clinical trial begins.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
“This is AI authoritarianism” | The Eval #1

Jul 29, 2026

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19 min read

“This is AI authoritarianism” | The Eval #1

Derya Unutmaz: “Fable 5 is a great model and they can just restrict it whatever the way they find is right”

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
“Opus 5 behaves more like a careful scientist”

Jul 27, 2026

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7 min read

“Opus 5 behaves more like a careful scientist”

Plus: why biology needs open weights, and AlphaFold3 helps gene editors make fewer mistakes.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
“Stronger than morphine” - Insilico takes on pain

Jul 23, 2026

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5 min read

“Stronger than morphine” - Insilico takes on pain

Plus: PeptiVerse predicts whether peptides have drug-like properties, and BrainPilot brings AI agents to neuroscience.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
AI critic Jennifer Doudna brings an AI showstopper

Jul 20, 2026

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9 min read

AI critic Jennifer Doudna brings an AI showstopper

Plus: Lila’s scientific-superintelligence claims, Google’s AI biosecurity stack, and a model that reads gene activity as an image.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
This startup can read a cell without killing it

Jul 16, 2026

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5 min read

This startup can read a cell without killing it

Plus: Chai reaches a $3.8B valuation with Lilly, Pfizer and Novartis on board.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
126 tools & resources for AI x bio

Jul 13, 2026

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1 min read

126 tools & resources for AI x bio

Plus: Summer Mode switched on for BAIO.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
Scientists are trading blows over virtual cells

Jul 9, 2026

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5 min read

Scientists are trading blows over virtual cells

Plus: Insilico’s AI-designed drug enters Phase III, Biohub finds psoriasis targets in skin cells, and ATHENA teaches medical AI to check its evidence.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
OpenAI’s biology test is already under pressure

Jul 6, 2026

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6 min read

OpenAI’s biology test is already under pressure

Plus: Valence models molecules in water, there's a new Virtual Cell challenge coming up, and Takeda adds Insilico to its AI drug-discovery ecosystem.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö

TOP 10

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in June

Jul 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Top 10 AI x bio stories in June

Claude Science, scientific superintelligence, ultrasound through the skull, and AI-designed antibodies for cancer’s hidden mutation flags.

Peter Ottsjö
Peter Ottsjö
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