Anthropic opens Bay Area biology lab to bring Claude into wet-lab research

Anthropic has set up a physical biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area and is using Claude to analyze data and literature, generate hypotheses and help plan experiments. Reuters reports the work involves both internal scientists and external partners, with Claude in an assistive rather than autonomous role.

• The lab is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with live biological systems
• Claude assists with data and literature review, hypothesis generation and experiment planning
• Anthropic's earlier life-sciences work was limited to Claude Science and partnerships with the Allen Institute and HHMI
• Details on organisms, protocols and the split of work with partners remain undisclosed