Benchling

Vibe coding is changing who gets to build software. What does that mean for science? Now scientists can build custom R&D apps in minutes, while agents take action across scientific workflows, and models keep getting better at reasoning through real lab problems. Our Head of AI Nicholas Larus-Stone spoke with R&D World about the emerging AI stack for science and what we’re building next. https://lnkd.in/eqNKBSSd

🇨🇭 Basel, here we come! Benchling is heading to #EFMCMedicinalChemistry2026 next week. Whether teams are exploring novel chemotypes, bioconjugates, or ADCs, connecting chemistry and biology on a single R&D platform is more important than ever. Stop by Booth #11 to meet Abla Benabderrazik, Jasmine Shah, and Audrey Benarroch, PharmD to explore our latest chemistry capabilities and see live demos of our unified R&D cloud. Schedule a demo with the team onsite or stop by our booth! Not attending? Request a demo: https://lnkd.in/dCD_ek3S

Before a new study starts, what if AI could automatically check what your org already knows? With Benchling Agents, you can build an Agent to do exactly that. Choose what you want it to do, then decide when it should run, whether that’s on a schedule or automatically when something happens in Benchling. For example, a Study Design Review Agent can take action as soon as a study moves into execution, compare it against similar past studies, and flag potential redundancy before work begins. What will you build? https://lnkd.in/exKjXqvd #AIForScientists

How much useful chemistry is buried in experiment records across your organization? Tomorrow, join Benchling’s Pamela Nasr, PhD and Zachary Reinert, Ph.D. to explore what changes when reaction data is structured and searchable from the start: faster reaction planning, less duplicated work, easier reporting, and a better foundation for AI. Register for the C&EN webinar: https://lnkd.in/eZuFxe4P

What actually leads to a multi-billion-dollar biotech acquisition? Kate Haviland, former CEO of Blueprint Medicines, takes us inside Blueprint’s acquisition by Sanofi — from relationship-building and business development to the strategic decisions that shaped the outcome. 🎙️ Watch the conversation: https://lnkd.in/eXAEeAfW #Transcribed

✈️ Goodbye, Chicago! The highlight of our first-ever ACS? Meeting hundreds of chemists and hearing how they’re thinking about AI-ready data across their workflows. We’re bringing chemistry and biology together on Benchling, and we can’t wait to see what scientists can do with more connected data. Did you miss ACS this year? Join our C&EN webinar on Sept 1 for the inside scoop on structured data capture for chemistry: https://lnkd.in/eZuFxe4P #ACSFall2026

Today we're launching Benchling Agents. Tell the agents their role and let them autonomously take action, whether that’s processing data as it arrives from a CRO, ordering a reagent as it runs low, or gathering historical context for a decision when you need it. No prompting required! Everyday at a biotech is a race against the clock. A few days waiting on a reagent, a few more waiting on data analysis, across an R&D program, adds up. We want to eliminate the whitespace and help scientists spend 100% of their time on science. Create your agents today: https://lnkd.in/gamxaXfX

“Few celebrities use their influence to support science so meaningfully.” Did you know that Dolly Parton helped fund the critical, early stages of research at Vanderbilt that would later become Moderna’s mRNA vaccine? Her COVID research fund has been credited for supporting at least 37 research papers to date. Thank you Dolly, and thank you to all who advocate for science. https://lnkd.in/ey2uDq29

In biotech and pharma we sometimes act like the fact that drugs take 8-12 years and 1-2 billions dollars to develop is inevitable. That Eroom’s Law is… well, a law. And that the optimism of people in tech is silly. But what if optimism could be backed up by real progress. What if every decision on the path to a drug was just a bit better. Every study was correctly designed. And every experiment got done just a bit faster. Agents can help. We’re finally moving out of the hype and into the plateau of productivity. Agents should be deeply integrated into every piece of software you use, which is why I’m excited to announce the Preview of Benchling Agents. My favorite part of our Agents is how they put the scientist in control. I’ve seen scientists set up Agents to help create control charts and improve data quality. Team leads getting regular weekly updates without having to bother their reports. And executives setting up automated program updates to stay up to date. The possibilities of what you can do with Agents are endless. And if you’re running experiments that take days (or weeks!) and cost tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands!) of dollars, then my question to you is: have you had an Agent double check your work? https://lnkd.in/eiQkuZu6