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Anthropic’s Claude Discovers New ART CRISPR-Like Enzyme System
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- Anthropic announced that its Claude model discovered a new bacterial enzyme system on Sept 23.
- Claude-powered agents scanned DNA databases for 21 hours, identifying over 200,000 genes and 20 candidate sequences.
- Anthropic named the programmable CRISPR-like system ART.
- CEO Dario Amodei posted on X that the finding could become a new gene-editing mechanism.
- Stanley Qi praised the discovery as exciting, while Kevin Blake cautioned it may not translate therapeutically.