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Today in AI for life science: Anthropic bets on agent infrastructure over bigger models, the virtual cell meets honest benchmarks, self-driving labs go mainstream, and spatial omics gets its foundation models — plus a new chapter from the lab.

Wei Ouyang and Hanzhao Zhang wrote the ‘Large Language Models and AI Agents’ chapter for AI in Microscopy: A BioImaging Guide (HHMI Janelia) — a tour from deep learning to autonomous, agent-driven bioimage analysis.

Our BioEngine preprint is out on bioRxiv. It turns the explosion of community AI models into something a biologist — or an AI agent — can actually run, on a laptop or an HPC cluster, no code required.

Today in AI for life science: an AI agent that drives ImageJ, the case for ’thinking microscopes’ that run their own experiments, and a foundation model that imagines how cells morph under perturbation.

Today in AI for life science: agent-readable bioimage AI, a Model Zoo glow-up, the 2026 DDLS postdoc decisions, and foundation models that read cells.

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with the bioimaging community! The BioImage.IO Chatbot has just been published in Nature Methods as part of a special issue focused on advanced AI in biology—marking a significant achievement for our team and the broader field of computational bioimaging.

We’re excited to welcome Nils Mechtel as our second PhD student at AICell Lab. His expertise in computational biology and deep learning will play a crucial role in advancing our human cell simulator project.

AICell Lab joyfully welcomes Yanhong Su as our new postdoctoral researcher. With her expertise in oncology, Yanhong will be a key contributor to our self-driving microscopy project.

ImageJ, a renowned open-source image processing tool, has long been a familiar name in the scientific community. Seeking to build upon its rich legacy, we undertook an ambitious endeavor: to transition ImageJ to the web through ImageJ.

Hey everyone, we’re thrilled to announce the latest addition to the BioImage.IO platform: the BioImage.IO Chatbot! 🎉 Read our preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18351 What’s New? 🆕 The chatbot is no ordinary assistant.