Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists
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Claude helping with protein design and analytical chemistry is another data point that frontier models are becoming lab instruments, not just office tools. If you’re in life sciences, budget time this quarter to test these access programs on one real pipeline step—design, analysis, or documentation—and measure whether they compress iteration cycles.
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