A team of researchers in China has unveiled a fully autonomous, AI-driven molecular biology laboratory capable of planning and executing complex genetic experiments from a single natural-language prompt. As highlighted in the November 12 issue of Nature, specialized AI agents orchestrate robotic arms to encode digital messages into synthetic DNA strands, amplify samples, and sequence the genetic data back out without human hands touching a pipette. The milestone demonstrates how self-driving laboratories can dramatically accelerate synthetic biology, genomic research, and DNA data storage.
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