The Rundown AI: Anthropic starts developing its own drugs

Posted on October 28, 2026 by michelleclarke2015
💊 Anthropic starts developing its own drugs
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The Rundown: Anthropic shared early results with its drug-development partners and revealed it’s now running its own drug discovery programs, including buying Mithril Medicine, a solo-founder biotech whose Claude-assisted muscular dystrophy candidate could reach human trials as early as late 2028.
The details:
The candidate showed promise in mice within 18 months, with Claude helping solo founder Cody Tranbarger juggle contracts and tests at 11 outside labs.Tranbarger also turned out to be “Professor Oak,” a biotech account run pseudonymously on X for six years, and calls the setup a “Pipeline-in-a-Person.”At Enveda, Claude wrote a first draft of a key regulatory filing in 4 hours vs. ~3 months by hand, and also flagged seven batch-record issues humans missed.In another case, three of roughly 35K antibodies Claude designed for Divergence Labs appeared to beat today’s main drug at unhooking allergy triggers from cells.This week’s IPO filing pitched a global pharma market expected to top $2T this year, but Anthropic warned its own drug bets “may never generate revenue.”
Why it matters: Dario Amodei said in August to expect “early glimmers” from Anthropic’s biology push in the coming months, and we’re seeing the groundwork for that. With Anthropic also running its own wet lab, and its IPO filing saying Claude can operate gear like microscopes, the pieces for AI’s hands-on science are falling into place fast.
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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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