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Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a novel CRISPR-like enzyme systemAnthropic details the process and Feng Zhang comments on the pre-print
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Anthropic's official account described its scientists' role as limited to the initial prompt and lab work, while CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang, after reviewing the pre-print, offered an assessment of the AI-driven discovery process.
“We gave Claude a prompt to search through a massive database of DNA sequences for interesting new examples of RTs. Our involvement was limited to the initial prompt and the lab work.”
Feng ZhangAnthropic AI company behind ClaudeClaude Anthropic's AI model / agent swarmFeng Zhang CRISPR pioneer, MIT/Broad Institute professor
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
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This is the first result from our new molecular biology lab, where a team of Anthropic biologists is using Claude to explore and accelerate fundamental biology research. There, Claude works through data and literature to generate hypotheses and candidate biological systems to study. After our scien...
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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 lab — discovery of a CRISPR-like enzyme — www.anthropic.com/news/claude- ...
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Very cool! However, the amazing absence of results makes me question whether they've got a Nature letter forthcoming or whether they know that another AI lab has a similar finding...
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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 understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its ...
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We've set up a molecular biology lab at Anthropic and we're announcing our first discovery! Claude discovered a new CRISPR-like enzyme. 950 agents spent 21 hours searching through a database of DNA sequences until one of the agents found something striking:
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