Скачать или смотреть BBC Today Programme Interview: EDEN and the AI Breakthrough Aiming to Replace Faulty Genes

In this BBC Radio Today interview, Oliver Vince, Co-Founder of UK Basecamp Research, a frontier AI lab harnessing evolution to design new medicines, explains a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence and medicine.

Basecamp Research unveiled EDEN, an AI model designed to create therapeutic candidates directly from a disease prompt — with the potential to replace faulty genes, reprogram cells, and accelerate treatments for cancer, genetic disease, autoimmune conditions, and infections.

Speaking with BBC presenter Nick Robinson, Oliver discusses:

How AI could design medicines faster and more effectively than traditional lab methods

Why more than 99% of life on Earth remains genetically unknown, and why that matters for human health

How Basecamp has discovered over one million new species and 10 billion new genes by sampling extreme environments worldwide

What “AI hallucinations” mean in biology — and why novelty can be an advantage

Why the team believes this breakthrough positions the UK as a global leader in AI and life sciences

🎧 Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 – Today Programme
📅 January 13, 2026

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00:00 Introduction & breakthrough announcement
00:48 Can AI do what scientists can’t?
01:31 Building the world’s largest biological dataset
02:29 Why evolution matters for AI medicine
03:03 Introducing EDEN: designing medicines from a disease prompt
03:37 AI “hallucinations” and real-world biology
04:15 The UK’s role in the future of AI and biotech