~950 Claude agents find new ART enzyme system in 21-hour autonomous run
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a previously uncharacterized enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats while mining genomic databases: 950 Claude agents worked 21 hours, analyzed 200,000+ reverse transcriptases, and surfaced a candidate its biologists then validated experimentally. The system, ART, resembles other programmable biological systems that manipulate genetic information; its function is still under study. This is the first result from Anthropic's new molecular biology lab, where Claude generates hypotheses and human scientists run all lab work.
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