Colossal Biosciences says its GenoMorph platform has found about 2,300 candidate dodo edit targets while working from a single dodo genome. CEO Ben Lamm says the targets still need lab testing, and the platform edits no genes itself.
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Colossal Biosciences shortlists about 2,300 dodo beak targets with its dodo genome 95% filled
Colossal Biosciences says its GenoMorph AI shortlisted about 2,300 candidate targets for the dodo's beak and that its dodo genome is 95% filled. The company announced no timeframe for hatching a dodo, and the shortlist is still being validated in the lab.
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Type VI retrons need a phage to start making the DNA that switches on their toxin
Gladstone researchers report in Molecular Cell a bacterial antiviral defense, type VI retrons, that works in reverse of known systems. Shipman's lab is working to use retrons to rewrite disease-causing mutations in human cells, but the tests described here used bacteria.
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Fused bacterial proteins insert large DNA blocks at a programmed genome site
A team led by microbiologist Joe Peters fused two unrelated bacterial proteins into a compact tool that inserts large DNA blocks at a chosen genome site. It works in bacteria, and the team is still hunting for relatives that work in human or plant cells.
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Anthropic's Crispr-like find from 950 Claude agents still waits on the wet lab
Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents found an enzyme system reminiscent of Crispr in 21.5 hours, backed so far by one unreviewed lab experiment. Scientists credit the speed of the search, so a lab can budget for faster triage today while the bench works out what the enzyme does.
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buildConfirmed5 publishers Anthropic ran about 950 Claude agents for 21 hours on 210 million tokens to cut over 200,000 reverse transcriptases to 20 lab candidates. Human scientists kept the bench work, so lab capacity sets how fast those leads get tested.
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Anthropic says its agents worked autonomously and that the same triage would take an expert scientist weeks or months. The company supplies that comparison itself, the preprint is unreviewed, and the enzyme system's function is unknown.
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United Therapeutics launches world's first pig-kidney clinical trial
United Therapeutics is sponsoring the first xenotransplant clinical trial. Its first patient got a 10-edit pig kidney at NYU Langone in November. The longest a gene-edited pig kidney has worked in a person is 271 days, against years or decades for a human donor organ.
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Anthropic credits Claude with three of the five steps in a gene-editing discovery
Dario Amodei says Claude read the literature and genome data, found something and proposed the experiments, while Anthropic's scientists chose the topic and ran them. He says the finding's function is not yet clear.
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S32 leads $140 million round for Basecamp Research's DNA from a million unsequenced species
The Series C values Basecamp Research at about $800 million, roughly 3.6 times everything it has raised, on the strength of a proprietary sequence library and scaling comparisons the company ran internally.
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Repair proteins bridged a broken DNA end with the nucleosome still in place
Two Johns Hopkins papers in Nature Communications examined double-strand breaks in DNA still wound on histones. The repair machinery joined the broken ends without stripping that packaging off first.
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Eight Korean institutions will share 3.26 billion won a year to field-test medical AI agents
Korea's ARPA-H is funding CHAIN, an agentic-AI orchestration programme led by Seoul National University Hospital, with 14.65 billion won through 2030 and a target of 1,000 verified medical agents. Eight institutions take part.
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