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Claude Discovers CRISPR-Like Enzyme System
Claude’s search of 200,000 enzyme clusters found a bacteriophage system with CRISPR-like repeats, and Anthropic says its function remains unknown.
- On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced that Claude, its AI system, discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA that may constitute a new gene editing mechanism with applications in gene therapy.
- Some 950 Claude-powered software agents analyzed DNA sequences for 21 hours, scanning more than 200,000 genes to identify 20 candidates—work that would typically require weeks of laboratory effort.
- Beside the enzyme's gene sits a long array of repeating DNA, a structure resembling CRISPR, the natural defense system bacteria use to modify living organisms.
- Feng Zhang, a professor at MIT and the Broad Institute, called the findings 'genuinely intriguing' and said the discovery 'merits further investigation,' though results remain preliminary and unpeer-reviewed.
- Anthropic dubbed the newly identified system ART, and Amodei stated the finding is 'Preliminary,' suggesting AI could eventually autonomously control lab equipment to accelerate drug discovery research.
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The Claude language model has independently discovered a structure that resembles that of CRISPR, although "it still takes much more work to learn what this system does and if it can have a similar use" Read
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