AnthropicAnalysisScienceSeptember 23, 2026

Anthropic says Claude found CRISPR-like enzyme system in DNA

Claude spent 21 hours and ~210M tokens across ~950 parallel agents scanning 200,000+ reverse transcriptases, narrowing to 3,500 candidates and then 20. The find, named ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases), sits in bacteriophage DNA; CRISPR co-inventor Feng Zhang called it "genuinely intriguing."

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