Anthropic Sets Up Bay Area Wet Lab for AI-Driven Biology Research

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to run physical biology experiments, moving beyond computer-based research toward treatments for rare diseases, according to the article.

The article says Eric Kauderer-Abrams, who joined in August 2025, now serves as Head of Life Sciences, and John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, joined from Google DeepMind in June.

It also reports that Anthropic claimed Claude discovered a novel enzyme system this week.