South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT held the MSIT-Bio Academies Future Policy Forum on Tuesday in Sejong with the Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology. Participants introduced recent research trends, highlighted the spread of AI in biotech, shared details of national project planning and discussed expanding a bio policy platform for regular communication with policymakers.