'Alien' Life to Human Cures: The AI Hunt for Evolution's Hidden Solutions

Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince founded Basecamp Research after hauling a solar-powered lab across Western Europe's largest ice cap to conduct the world’s first off-grid DNA sequencing. What they discovered was astonishing: more than half the DNA they analysed was entirely unknown to science. Today, their team is mapping Earth’s “genetic dark matter” in 28 countries and training cutting-edge AI models on this unprecedented evolutionary dataset — with the goal of designing new genetic medicines and cell therapies.