Anthropic announces its molecular research group and laboratory

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• Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social amplified

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  Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR. We don’t yet u…

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• Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me: Anthropic has a wet lab in SF where they’re using Claude to accelerate fundamental biology research This is the first big result from that… →
• S Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us: Probably the wrong platform to post anything remotely positive about AI, but reading through this and Dario’s X post, it’s pretty exciting s… →
• I Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social amplified

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  Anthropic threw Claude at a DNA database. 21 hours, 950 agents, and 210mm tokens later, it emerged with a novel reverse transcriptase (similar to CRISPR). They're running a non-pathogenic (BSL-1/2) research lab in the Ba…

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