Emergingby GlyphGenome language models design working bacteriophages
Arc Institute and Stanford researchers generated complete phage genomes; 16 designed phages were viable.
doi.org
Events in frontier tech
25 events
Aug 2026
DNA Script and GE HealthCare awarded up to $26M by ARPA-H
The FLASH program funds faster, distributed cell-free DNA manufacturing.
dnascript.com
Jul 2026
Chai Discovery raises $400M at a $3.8B valuation
Investors include Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Dimension.
chaidiscovery.com
Apr 2026
Profluent partners with Eli Lilly on AI-designed recombinases
The deal targets recombinases for genetic medicine.
profluent.bio
Feb 2026
Generate Biomedicines prices $400M Nasdaq IPO
Shares priced at $16.00 and trade under the ticker GENB.
generatebiomedicines.com
Dec 2025
Generate Biomedicines to start Phase 3 studies of AI-engineered asthma antibody
GB-0895 is a long-acting anti-TSLP antibody for severe asthma.
generatebiomedicines.com
Oct 2025
Ansa Biotechnologies launches 50 kb sequence-perfect clonal DNA
Ansa says it delivers the ultra-long verified DNA in less than 25 days.
ansabio.com
Microsoft study patches DNA synthesis screening against AI-designed proteins
Science paper showed AI-reformulated toxin sequences evaded screening and deployed fixes.
doi.org
Jul 2025
E. coli with a 57-codon synthetic genome reported in Science
Jason Chin's MRC LMB team built Syn57, compressing the genetic code of a bacterium.
doi.org
Profluent publishes AI-designed CRISPR gene editors in Nature
The paper describes OpenCRISPR-1, a gene editor generated by a protein language model.
doi.org
Latent Labs launches Latent-X for protein binder design
Latent-X is offered through a no-code web platform.
latentlabs.com
Jun 2025
Chai Discovery releases Chai-2 for zero-shot antibody design
Chai-2 reported double digit hit rates in de novo antibody design.
chaidiscovery.com
Wellcome funds the Synthetic Human Genome Project with 10 million pounds
SynHG, led by Jason Chin, will spend five years building tools to synthesise large genomes.
wellcome.org
Apr 2025
US biotech commission delivers final report and action plan to Congress
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology report is titled Charting the Future of Biotechnology.
prnewswire.com
Mar 2025
Isomorphic Labs raises $600M in its first external round
Thrive Capital led, with GV and Alphabet following on.
isomorphiclabs.com
Colossal reports multiplex-edited mice with mammoth-like hair
A bioRxiv preprint described mice edited at several genes to show woolly mammoth hair traits.
doi.org
Feb 2025
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2 genome language model
Evo 2 models and designs genetic code across all domains of life and is openly available.
arcinstitute.org
Jan 2025
Colossal Biosciences raises $200M Series C at a $10.2B valuation
TWG Global led the round for the de-extinction company.
colossal.com
De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins
Baker lab researchers used AI-designed proteins to block three-finger toxins in Nature.
doi.org
Nov 2024
Solugen wins $2M DoD award for bioindustrial manufacturing
The Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program award backs a modular plant for dual-use chemical precursors.
solugen.com
Oct 2024
Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to protein design and structure prediction
David Baker won for computational protein design; Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for AlphaFold.
nobelprize.org
Jun 2024
EvolutionaryScale releases ESM3 and an AI-designed fluorescent protein
ESM3 generated esmGFP, which differs from the closest natural fluorescent protein by 96 mutations.
evolutionaryscale.ai
Solugen gets conditional commitment for a $213.6M DOE loan guarantee
The loan would support its Bioforge Marshall biomanufacturing plant in southwest Minnesota.
solugen.com
May 2024
AlphaFold 3 predicts structures of protein complexes with DNA, RNA and ligands
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published AlphaFold 3 in Nature.
doi.org
Apr 2024
Xaira Therapeutics launches with $1B for AI drug design
ARCH and Foresite incubated Xaira, which uses protein design models from David Baker's lab.
techcrunch.com