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Posted on October 21, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Anthropic’s takes on drug discovery with Claude
Anthropic is going all-in on the $2 trillion biotech market.
On Monday, the AI safety and research startup launched Claude for Life Sciences, a new capability designed to support scientists working on drug discovery: one of the most complex and costly processes in research, CNBC reported.
Part of the Claude model family, the tool is built to automate time-consuming tasks like hypothesis generation, literature review and regulatory drafting. The goal is to reduce the busywork that slows down early-stage research and development and, in turn, ship potentially life saving treatments to market faster. 
It’s a timely, and arguably Anthropic’s most practical use of AI yet. Developing a single drug can take 10 to 15 years and cost $2.6 billion. Claude isn’t running lab experiments or clinical trials, but with its new feature, Anthropic believes it can streamline the paperwork and data handling that often bog down progress.
“We want a meaningful percentage of all life-science work in the world to run on Claude,” Eric Kauderer-Abrams, head of Anthropic’s biology and life sciences division, told CNBC. 
The launch comes two months after Anthropic hired Kauderer-Abrams to lead its biology and life science division. Since then, Anthropic has partnered with platforms like Benchling, which manages lab data for over 200,000 researchers, and 10x Genomics, known for its genomic sequencing tools, to integrate their tools into Claude. 
In a demo shared with CNBC, a scientist used Claude to query experimental data in Benchling, generate summary tables, and compile a report — cutting a multi-day process down to minutes.
Anthropic isn’t alone in targeting the drug discovery space. Last week, Google DeepMind released Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B, a model developed with Yale to help uncover cancer cell behaviors. OpenAI, as well as startups like Recursion and Cradle, are also using AI to analyze proteins and extract insights from lab data.
Kauderer-Abrams is under no illusions that Claude will solve biology’s hardest problems overnight. But he sees it as a tool that could give scientists a faster path to the next big breakthrough.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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