Anthropic announces Claude discovered an unknown enzyme system hidden in bacteriophage DNA
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic officially announced that Claude discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in bacteriophage DNA — beside the enzyme's gene sits a long array of repeating DNA resembling CRISPR.
The company says the system's function isn't yet understood, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them can cut, copy, and paste DNA — historically, discoveries of such mechanisms have proven significant.
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