Agentic AI has crossed a threshold in oncology — from pattern-recognition tool to active research collaborator that generates hypotheses, designs experiments, and guides lab workflows.
Transformers trained on 123 million bacterial proteins decoded the hidden computational language of antiphage defense. Mordret et al. (Science 2026) just tripled our estimate of genomic defense allocation and validated 12 brand-new systems. This is biology as computation entering its programmable era.
DNA is no longer just a storage molecule — it's the hardware for autonomous nanorobots that sense, compute, and act inside living systems. Here's what the 2025–2026 breakthroughs actually mean.
Epia Neuro launched from stealth in April 2026 with a minimally invasive skull implant and motorized glove designed to restore hand function in stroke survivors — not by replacing the brain, but by retraining it.
When AI intelligence becomes a commodity, energy efficiency is the only moat left. The companies that win the next decade will own proprietary wetware — not better software.
The Cortical Labs CL1 is the world's first commercial biological computer. Here's what real customers are actually doing with it in 2026.
Johns Hopkins integrates nearly 200 studies and 30 million cells into a high-resolution atlas of neocortex development — turning raw biology into a programmable roadmap for the brain's computational assembly.
From John C. Lilly's 1968 vision of the brain as programmable hardware to Cortical Labs' $35,000 CL1, biocomputing has crossed from philosophy into product. Here's how we got here.
Evolution had 3.8 billion years. ABI gives us an afternoon. Adrian Woolfson and Eric Topol map the shift from reading DNA to authoring entire genomes — and what it means for biological computing.