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Featured

Jun 22, 2026

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8 min read

What to make of the Midjourney Scanner

Plus: OpenAI revisits rare-disease genomes, Benchling adds private lab context, and AlphaFold’s co-creator heads to Anthropic.

Peter Ottsjö

Scientists are the new refugees in Dario Amodei's world

Jun 11, 2026

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2 min read

Scientists are the new refugees in Dario Amodei's world

A personal note on Claude Fable, Anthropic’s biology safeguards and the coming fight over access to frontier AI.

Peter Ottsjö

TOP 10

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

The TOP 10 AI x bio stories in May

World models for proteins, robot hands in the wet lab, AI scientists in Nature, and safety filters that still cannot tell ordinary biology from risky biology.

Peter Ottsjö

Latest

“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

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

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