# Life Sciences in Firecrawl Research Index

41M+ papers across the drug discovery, clinical trial, and biology literature at 90% recall@10, and the whole index is free to use.

- Published: August 13, 2026

The **Life Sciences category** is now available in [Firecrawl Research Index](/blog/research-index-launch.md). 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 index is also free to use now.

![Life Sciences in Firecrawl Research Index](/images/blog/research-index-life-sciences-launch.webp)

### Highlights

* **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.
* **Free to use.** Every category is free, including the AI and ML literature it already carried alongside the new Life Sciences papers.
* **Available everywhere you build.** Query it through the API at `/search/research`, plus the CLI, MCP, and SDKs.

Read the full blog [here](/blog/research-index-life-sciences-launch.md?utm_source=changelog\&utm_medium=changelog\&utm_campaign=research_index_life_sciences_launch).

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