Hiba Fathima
Today we're launching the Life Sciences category in the Firecrawl Research Index. It covers 41M+ papers across the drug discovery, clinical trial, and biology literature. Your AI agents get citable papers back for a query and can pull the full text on demand.
The whole Research Index is also free to use now. That includes the AI and ML literature it already carried alongside the new Life Sciences papers.
How the Life Sciences category makes research easier
- High-recall retrieval. The index hits 90% recall@10 on our paper-retrieval eval, so your AI agents find more of what matters on the first page of results.
- Millions of life sciences papers. The corpus holds 41M+ papers from authoritative sources and refreshes daily, so your AI agents only cite domain-specific literature.
- Abstract to full text. Your AI agents search abstracts to find the right papers, then pull the full text to verify a claim against the source.
- No DIY stack. Research Index stands in for the source APIs plus the parsing and ranking you would otherwise build yourself.
What you can use it for
- Build and improve life sciences models. Your AI agents call the index to support internal work on chemical compounds and predictive biology.
- Power a research platform's answers. Use the index as the backend for your platform. A user asks a question and the index returns the papers and passages your platform needs to answer it.
- Run targeted academic and clinical research. Point the research harness you already use at the index and your AI agents retrieve life sciences literature scoped to your objective.
Try it today
The Life Sciences category is live now in Firecrawl Research Index through the API at /search/research, plus the CLI, MCP, and SDKs. Every category is free to query.
