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Nonprofit biomedical research organisation in Palo Alto, California, combining wet-lab biology with machine learning on long research horizons.
Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio embeds a traceable mark in an AI-designed protein that a detector can find in the physical molecule, without changing how it works. The mark is meant to help DNA synthesis firms screen orders and trace which model made a sequence.
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Google DeepMind's SynthIDBio hides a watermark in AI-designed proteins that a detector reads near-perfectly without weakening how they bind. The authors call it a proof of concept, and a determined user can still scrub the mark by rerunning a design through another tool.
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Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio watermark matched unwatermarked binders on hit rate, affinity and sequence diversity across three wet-lab targets. The company aims it at DNA synthesis screeners, who could use the signal to auto-clear orders from safeguarded AI models.
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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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Frontier labs are citing AI-designed bioweapons to argue for new controls on synthetic DNA. Researchers who run labs told WIRED the hard part is assembling and verifying a virus, and that no fully autonomous lab exists.
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TranscriptFormer learned gene expression the way a language model learns text, across 12 species from single-celled yeast to humans. Its cross-species matches arrive as hypotheses a bench experiment still has to test.
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