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The Astera Institute is a non-profit research organisation that funds long horizon work in computing and the natural sciences outside academic and commercial incentive structures. Its programmes cover open source scientific tooling, self driving laboratories and the Obelisk effort to build machine intelligence grounded in biological principles rather than scaled language modelling. The institute supports researchers with multi year commitments and publishes its outputs openly; its funding comes from a philanthropic endowment rather than venture capital or government grants.
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Astera Partnering with the National Science Foundation to Support Open Science
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a partnership with the Astera Institute related to the first round of investment in building a national network of automated laboratory infrastructure, known as the Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PC
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What Scientists Said: Results from Astera's First Essay Competition
Astera recently hosted its first essay competition, focused around metascience. This competition was always more about starting a conversation than finding a bunch of perfect solutions. We wanted to hear from working researchers, not policy experts or adm
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The Data Problem Killing Drug Discovery
Drug candidates often fail in the clinic not because they fail to engage their target, but because of ADMET: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity. Pat Walters has spent 30 years watching this happen. Now, as Chief Scientist at Ope
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Radial Supports The Deliverome Project
Building the missing data layer for precision medicine delivery
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Spinning a new future with programmable fibers
Thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a sea sponge produces threads that lattice together into a translucent skeleton. A foot-long glass house of their own design. When Tim McGee, now a resident at Astera Institute, learned about this
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Mapping the path to one cent electricity
A new era of power generation is coming with nuclear fusion. Fusion technology mimics the enormous flux of energy powering the core of the stars like our Sun. Small atoms smash together under such immense pressure and temperature that they fuse into heavi
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Announcing Radial, Astera's new life sciences division
Today, Astera Institute is launching Radial, a division which reimagines how life sciences research happens at a systems level. Radial will be led by Becky Pferdehirt as CEO. We are committing up to $500M over the next decade to expand our build-test-lear
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Identifying Systemic Bottlenecks to Science
Today, alongside the launch of Radial, we are opening an essay competition that I've been ruminating on for some time. Namely, inviting active scientists from any sector to share concrete research challenges that can inform our future work at Astera. We'r
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Dileep George joins Astera to lead its neuro-inspired AGI effort
Dileep George is joining Astera as Head of AI, leading our AGI research division. Working alongside our Chief Scientist Doris Tsao, he and the team will explore novel, brain-inspired computational architectures to accelerate the development of safe, effic
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Sharpening Astera's focus
Important science and technology development often falls through the cracks of public funding and private markets, i.e. work that may be high impact but risky, requires long timelines, or involves unpopular ideas. These areas are ripe for philanthropy. An
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