Anthropic launches molecular biology lab; Claude discovers novel CRISPR-like enzyme system
Anthropic · youtube · 2026-09-24
Anthropic has announced a new molecular biology research group and lab to test whether Claude can help scientists spot unusual proteins in nature's molecular machines.
- The team has spent their careers hunting unusual proteins, from tracing CRISPR evolution to finding enzymes for cell and gene therapies
- Workflow: Claude combs through large DNA datasets, flags interesting or uncharacterized proteins, and surfaces promising ideas; scientists then validate them at the bench
- In one of its first programs, Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, detailed on the Anthropic blog
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