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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic's team used 950 Claude agents consuming 210 million tokens over 21 hours to discover array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART), a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeating DNA patterns in bacteriophages.

💬 Skepticism emerged regarding the lack of published biological results and potential training data contamination from user-submitted papers.
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Anthropic Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
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