Citrini Research Uses AI to Design Proteins

Citrini Research spent $200,000 over three months using an internal Anthropic model to design 211 proteins for lab testing. The team worked at Anthropic offices to bypass biosecurity classifiers. Seventeen designs bound to scorpion toxins, though blocking effects remain untested. Citrini sent the pool to Twist Bioscience and Adaptyv Bio for synthesis.