Anthropic Builds Biology Lab to Test What Claude Can Do in the Real World
Anthropic expands life sciences push with new biology lab in Bay Area. Image: Anthropic
Anthropic has opened a biology lab to test Claude with real experiments and lab equipment, expanding its AI life sciences work beyond computer simulations.
Sep 22, 2026
Anthropic has spent years warning about the risks of increasingly capable AI. Now it is testing what those systems can do inside a real biology lab.
The Claude maker has established a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area where it can conduct physical biological experiments, expanding its life sciences work beyond computer-based research. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s head of life sciences, confirmed the facility to Reuters and said the company conducts some experiments internally while relying on outside partners for others.
Though Anthropic subsequently clarified to Reuters that the laboratory isn’t focused specifically on drug discovery, it declined to elaborate on the exact scope of the facility’s activities.
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