#ai biology
1 published article
Claude discovers novel enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like repeats in bacteriophages
Anthropic's new life sciences lab used 950 Claude agents over 21 hours and 210M tokens to identify array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART) in jumbo phages. The system includes non-coding DNA repeats and an accessory protein of unknown function. Feng Zhang calls it 'genuinely intriguing.'