Research & Development World

Continuing a Biden-era push accelerated by the Trump administration, the NIH is making research findings available to the public and requiring NIH-funded researchers to deposit the author-accepted version of their peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMed Central (PMC) and make it available at the time of publication. Many publishers enforce a six to 12-month embargo period before… The post The NIH trie…

Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG), the inner layer of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), this week. The garment was designed for NASA’s Artemis IV, which is scheduled to land on the moon in 2028.  “By bringing together the best in both aerospace engineering as well as luxury… The post The science behind the Prada-designed spacesuit for A…

In April 2026, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, now a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, posted an architectural overview on GitHub. The project itself, which he called an “LLM wiki,” has generated significant buzz, though nothing approaching OpenClaw, the agent framework that became one of the most successful projects in GitHub history. The tweet that… The post Is Karpathy’s viral LLM wiki…

Researchers at Washington University have genetically engineered hookworms to produce and secrete a human antibody, creating a “living pharmaceutical biofactory,” according to the study published in Nature Communications.  To survive within the human gut, hookworms secrete over 800 molecules to modulate inflammation and maintain homeostasis.  “We thought: what if we make it secrete one more… The …

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of over 900 deep-ocean instruments that provide researchers with real-time, long-term data on marine ecosystems, coastal environments and global climate patterns.  This could lead to permanent gaps in long-term oceanographic datasets, disrupting longitudinal studies on climate change and ocean…

How facility design, containment, and cleaning validation decisions determine commercial yield and time-to-market. Scaling spray drying from lab success to commercial production is one of the most complex transitions in pharmaceutical manufacturing. While early-stage results may appear promising, many organizations underestimate how facility design, safety systems, and day-to-day operations affec…

Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT) has launched a differential scanning calorimeter built to test fully assembled coin cells, eliminating the cell teardown step that has long made DSC-based battery safety work slow and destructive. The Waters TA Instruments Coin Cell Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) scans fully assembled coin cells from -80 °C to 600 °C while… The post Waters targets earlier thermal…

Digital pathology matured quickly during the pandemic, when remote work needs and temporary FDA enforcement discretion lowered the perceived barriers to whole-slide imaging. Capital followed. Roche’s May agreement to acquire PathAI for up to $1.05 billion, pending closing, is only the most recent sign of how much money is chasing the field. The most valuable… The post Leica, Indica Labs and Lunit…

At Microsoft Build 2026, the software giant’s annual developer conference, held June 2 and 3 in San Francisco, the life sciences AI company Causaly announced a collaboration with Microsoft aimed at one of drug discovery’s earliest and most consequential decisions: which biological targets are worth pursuing. Causaly runs an agentic AI platform that reads across… The post Causaly and Microsoft tar…

Claude Mythos was one of the most hyped models in recent memory. And it is out now. Sort of. Yesterday Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a generally available model built on the same weights as Mythos 5 that switches over to the older Opus 4.8 for most tasks that even mention cybersecurity or biology. Early… The post How Claude Fable 5 stacks up against Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 appeared first on Res…

A team of researchers recently uncovered living microorganisms on the remains of the 5,300-year-old Iceman, revealing a methodological gap in modern genomics. In a study published in Microbiome, the team showed that while DNA analysis can map the presence of ancient genetic material, traditional petri dish cultivation remains necessary to determine if those microorganisms are… The post Beyond the…

Stanford scientists have discovered a new kind of cell death in flatworm immune cells. Called ruptosis, the mechanism results in the cell exploding and taking out approximately 70 cells surrounding it.  The flatworms, Schmidtea mediterranea, evolved to sacrifice healthy cells through this process in order to ensure the elimination of biological threats. Unlike vertebrate immune… The post Flatworm…

NASA today announced the four members of the Artemis III crew and gave updates on the mission, including how a recent explosion during a Blue Origin test is affecting the timeline.  The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 28. The incident destroyed the… The post NASA is confident Blue Origin will be ready for Artemis III despite…

For eight days, a kilometer of fiber-optic cable on the floor of Monterey Bay became a temporary nervous system for one of the West Coast’s major submarine canyons. The portable seafloor sensing system, deployed at roughly 380 meters depth in Monterey Bay, operated autonomously for eight days and detected all 32 earthquakes in the U.S.… The post How lightweight AI startup Lightscline turns one to…

Since April 2026, AI labs have begun keeping their most powerful models behind vetted-access programs. Anthropic limited its Claude Mythos system and OpenAI its GPT-5.5-Cyber to approved security partners, each billed as able to spot and exploit software flaws with unprecedented precision. Also in April, OpenAI announced its GPT-Rosalind life-sciences model, gating it over biosecurity… The post W…

President Donald J. Trump is pushing Washington deeper into the business of artificial intelligence, with a pair of new directives that move the federal government closer to the release calendar of frontier models, the military deployment of commercial AI and possibly the ownership structure of the companies building it. The President signed two artificial intelligence… The post Trump’s AI push t…

Solving humanity’s biggest problems has been OpenAI’s stated reason for pursuing artificial general intelligence since its 2015 founding, and over time, life science challenges have crystallized as core parts of its vision. In February 2025, CEO Sam Altman wrote that “we can now imagine a world where we cure all diseases,” and by that September… The post OpenAI research and product leads detail G…

Agentic AI company Owkin and Sanofi have extended their collaboration with a five-year license for K Pro, Owkin’s AI scientist, under which Owkin will lead the end-to-end development of novel, purpose-built biopharma agents for Sanofi. Owkin pitches K Pro as a system that reasons over biological data and orchestrates AI agents to run research and… The post Sanofi deepens its Owkin bet with a five…

After securing $65 billion in Series H funding and achieving a $965 billion post-money valuation, Anthropic has filed for an IPO to access more capital. Today, the company floated the idea of a pause on model development. “We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause… The post Anthropic floats a pause on AI development as it achieves a nearly trillion-…

On a clear night in early 2019, in his hometown in China, Jie Yang, Ph.D., was thinking about how galaxies merge. In essence, they combine through mass, distance and gravity, with nothing else involved. Yang, now a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney, asked whether a clustering method could group itself the same… The post Creator of galaxy-inspired algorithm torque clustering…