Anthropic launched a new life sciences research group and disclosed its first result: Claude autonomously flagged a previously uncharacterized bacteriophage enzyme system called array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART), whose structure resembles CRISPR arrays. Roughly 950 agents ran for 21 hours and used 210M tokens to scan 200,000 RTs and narrow 3,500 candidates down to 20 systems; CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang endorsed the work as 'genuinely intriguing.' A technical preprint dropped alongside the announcement.
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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…
Anthropic might have discovered something. Or maybe not. Who knows? Not even Anthropic.
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This is irresponsible science. The proper course of action is to figure out if there is any sign…
Original headline:Anthropic's New Biolab: Claude Autonomously Finds a Novel CRISPR-Like Enzyme System in Bacteriophages
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