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Anthropic AI Discovers CRISPR-like Enzyme System
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Anthropic's Claude AI autonomously identified a novel enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA resembling CRISPR, using nearly 1,000 agents over 21 hours and 210 million tokens. The discovery, announced by Dario Amodei, suggests a potential new gene-editing mechanism, though its function remains unclear. The finding highlights AI's growing role in biological research.
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