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Anthropic also cited research partnerships with six organizations.","whyItMatters":"Anthropic is now running drug discovery rather than only supplying a model to partners, and a candidate from its acquired work could reach human clinical trials as early as late 2028.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eAnthropic lists three returns from the effort: a clearer map of where Claude helps and where it fails across drug discovery tasks, a case study for the wider life sciences field, and the prospect of new drugs for food allergies, rare pediatric diseases and multiple cancers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn work with Generate Biomedicines on CAR-T cell therapy, a new design was proposed to extend the therapy from blood cancers to solid cancers, and testing confirmed one design was 70 percent more compact than conventional designs with higher efficacy. Traumberger will stay at Anthropic and continue the muscular dystrophy research alongside new work.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a two-drug muscular dystrophy developer whose sole employee used Claude to move a candidate from idea to mouse results in 18 months. Anthropic is now doing its own drug discovery, with human trials possible as early as late 2028.","twitterPost":"Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a muscular dystrophy drug developer run by Cody Traumberger alone. Using Claude, a candidate went from idea to promising mouse results in 18 months. Anthropic now runs its own drug discovery; human trials could come as early as late 2028.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, which is developing two muscular dystrophy treatments, and began in-house drug discovery. Founder and sole employee Cody Traumberger used Claude to take a candidate from idea stage to promising mouse results in 18 months. 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