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Anthropic's Claude Finds CRISPR-Like Enzyme System
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Anthropic formed a life sciences lab in spring 2026 and tasked Claude with genome mining. Roughly 950 agents spent 21 hours and 210 million tokens searching DNA, flagging a reverse transcriptase system with CRISPR-like repeats. The team named it array-associated reverse transcriptases and released a pre-print; function remains unknown, but the pattern suggests programmable DNA editing tools.
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