Anthropic AI Claude Scans 210 Million Tokens to Find New Gene System

Over 21 hours, nearly 950 Claude agents built by Anthropic searched massive DNA databases and autonomously found a hidden biological system in viruses. 🚀🔥

The system lives inside bacteriophages, which are tiny viruses that infect bacteria. Researchers named it ART, short for array-associated reverse transcriptase. It includes an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA, a partner gene, and repeating DNA sequences.

The layout closely resembles CRISPR, the famous gene-editing tool you probably know, though it lacks the nearby cas genes found in standard CRISPR systems.

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