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We are starting with liver toxicity, one of the leading causes of drug failure. We’ve built an extraordinarily accurate, high-throughput human liver safety platform that combines advanced human cell systems, imaging, transcriptomics, mass spectrometry, and drug metabolism measurements. Our AI agents integrate this experimental data with chemical structure, human exposure, and thousands of clinical reference compounds to predict whether a drug will be toxic in humans, why, and how to redesign it to be safer.\nWe work with seven of the world’s top twenty pharmaceutical companies to bring these capabilities directly into drug discovery, enabling scientists to design safety into molecules rather than discover toxicities years later. We also partner with leading frontier AI labs to turn our drug discovery expertise and experimental systems into training environments that teach AI models to become superhuman drug hunters. 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