GENBIO LAUNCHES A “VIRTUAL CELL” AI MODEL

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GenBio has announced a world model of a cell that can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations. AIDO Cell currently supports K562 and HepG2, two of the most widely used immortalized human cell lines in biomedical research. GenBio is preparing to launch an early-access academic collaborator program for scientists across academia, biotech, and pharma. AIDO Cell and similar systems could eventually become powerful tools for basic biological research, allowing scientists to perturb genes, proteins, or pathways, follow the predicted consequences across biological levels, generate hypotheses, and identify relationships that might take much longer to uncover in the lab.