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."
People · Feng Zhang
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- Sep 23
Inside Anthropic's molecular biology labyoutube.com
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crisprtheverge.com
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeatsanthropic.com
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something bigtechcrunch.com
Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know Whatdecrypt.co
- Sep 24
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