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1. Q&A: Anthropic's life sciences team on its enzyme research, biology lab and a preclinical pipeline
2. Lilly pulls back from Foghorn's synthetic lethality work as biotech sheds 40% of staff
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Karen Weintraub
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Last week, Anthropic said its AI discovered a new class of enzymes, conducting original science for the first time ever. A few days later, a University of Copenhagen researcher said he’d already discovered enzymes in that class. Andrew Dunn spoke with the Anthropic researchers, who insist their model didn’t copy the scientist’s work. Read his interview for details.

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Karen Weintraub
Deputy Editor, Endpoints News
Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s head of life sciences
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by Andrew Dunn

Last week, An­throp­ic said its AI sys­tem made its first sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­ery.

Claude agents had dis­cov­ered a new en­zyme sys­tem, the AI gi­ant said, pub­li­ciz­ing the find­ings...

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by Kyle LaHucik

Eli Lil­ly is walk­ing away from Foghorn Ther­a­peu­tic­s' "syn­thet­ic lethal­i­ty" drug de­vel­op­ment, and the small biotech is re­duc­ing its head­count by 40% as a re­sult...

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News Briefing: Quick hits from the biopharma web
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by ENDPOINTS

Plus news about No­vo, Nek­tar, Min­dRank, Mab­well Bio­science, Atara Bio­ther­a­peu­tics, Pierre Fab­re, Monte Rosa and Sko­pos Bio.

Unit­ed Ther­a­peu­tics wins court bat­tle: A fed­er­al court...

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Sanofi CEO Belén Garijo (L) and Regeneron CEO Leonard Schleifer
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by Reynald Castaneda

As the patent cliff for Dupix­ent draws clos­er, Sanofi is turn­ing back to the part­ner­ship that built the megablock­buster.

The French phar­ma will pay $1...

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by Kyle LaHucik

New York City drug de­vel­op­er Kally­ope is re­brand­ing as TriGemX Bio as it fo­cus­es sole­ly on treat­ing mi­graine.

To sup­port the re­struc­tured com­pa­ny and its...

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