AI tool streamlines drug synthesis, dramatically reducing lab work and costs

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and ...
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Ginkgo Bioworks' Autonomous Laboratory Driven by OpenAI's GPT-5 Achieves 40% Improvement Over State-of-the-Art Scientific Benchmark

BOSTON, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) today announced it has demonstrated, in collaboration with OpenAI, an AI system that autonomously designed, executed, and learned from ...
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Millions of Materials from DeepMind Deep Learning and an Robotic Lab Accelerates Synthesis of Novel Materials

DeepMind has shared the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals – equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge. They introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), a new deep learning ...
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Science historian Catherine M. Jackson discusses the origins of organic synthesis

In her new book, Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry, chemistry historian Catherine M. Jackson brings the world of 19th-century experimentalists to life for chemists and other readers today. And ...