The lab of the future is an automated vision that the scientific community is already constructing. With lab benches replaced by self-enclosed robotic hoods and liquid handlers, scientists can work on more complex tasks on their computers or remotely from a central office space. As we adopt automation to make the synthesis of large molecules…
25 techbio leaders that shaped the AI-biology convergence in 2024
While the term “biotechnology” was coined in 1919, “techbio” dates back roughly a century after that. Around 2019, the VC firm Artis Ventures set up a venture capital fund named Artis techbio with the aim of uniting software, computational biology, and drug development into a cohesive framework. The ambition behind this idea has sometimes surpassed…