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Why Twist Bioscience's complex genes offering is a bet on AI-driven protein design
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (252+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | May 17, 2026 That is roughly the strategic logic behind the latest product launch from the DNA synthesis firm Twist Bioscience, which is expanding its clonal genes line to cover longer and more structurally difficult sequences....
Analyses find thousands of papers with AI-generated errors
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (558+ words) Research & Development World By Julia Rock-Torcivia | May 14, 2026 A recent study that examined 2. 5 million papers suggests that nearly 3, 000 biomedical science papers contain fake references. One of the co-authors, Maxim Topaz, told Nature that the findings are "conservative underestimates" of the true…...
How a Berkeley team broke 8 major AI benchmarks. Six of them hit 100% without solving a single task
3+ week, 4+ day ago (156+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | April 22, 2026 Exploit agent scores across eight AI agent benchmarks. The Berkeley team achieved 100% on five benchmarks and near-100% on a sixth without solving any tasks. (Source: Berkeley RDI) The findings, which the researchers plan…...
Wiley moves deeper into clinical AI with Open Evidence content licensing pact
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (143+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | March 4, 2026 "Cochrane systematic reviews are relied upon by evidence users worldwide, from patients and healthcare professionals to guideline-setters and policymakers," noted Karla Soares-Weiser, CEO of Cochrane, in a statement. She added: "[We] hope that…...
Cisco's bet on agentic ops, when the network cannot wait for a human
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1114+ words) R&D World Edwards, a vice president of product management who oversees the company's enterprise campus switching portfolio, described a field at an inflection point. "You have this existing way of running networks and an existing way of trying to…...
Sapio survey finds 45% of scientists using unauthorized AI tools, view ELNs as 'glorified filing cabinets"
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (496+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 11, 2026 Scientists want AI in the Lab" on their terms Nearly all scientists surveyed want their electronic lab notebooks to evolve into intelligent research partners. But enthusiasm comes with conditions. Eighty-one percent said they…...
Open AI's GPT-5 autonomously ran 36, 000 protein synthesis experiments in Ginkgo Bioworks' cloud lab
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (425+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 5, 2026 GPT-5 handles the cognitive layer (data analysis, biochemical reasoning, hypothesis generation) and sends experimental designs down to the RACs, which handle the physical execution (liquid handling, incubation, fluorescence measurement), then push data back…...
Claude Opus 4. 6 targets research workflows with 1 M-token context window, improved scientific reasoning
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (155+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 5, 2026 Caveats apply. Anthropic's 76% figure is self-reported and awaits independent verification. Google's 26. 3% dates to the Gemini 3 Pro launch in November and may improve with the production non-preview version of Gemini 3 Pro. The MRCR v2 benchmark…...
NVIDIA, Dassault Syst'mes target materials discovery, drug development and more with industrial AI platform
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (426+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 3, 2026 For materials research, Dassault Syst'mes" BIOVIA platform will combine with NVIDIA"s ALCHEMI generative AI services. The unification will enable atomistic and molecular simulations enhanced by machine learning. The companies claim scientists can…...
How Radical AI is building a self-driving materials lab
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (830+ words) Research & Development World By Julia Rock-Torcivia | January 29, 2026 A Radical AI scientist monitors an automated lab workflow alongside a robotic arm. [Radical AI] The company's AI system screens billions of material compositions to predict structures and physical properties to identify experimental…...