Claude-designed scorpion antivenom proteins: 211 designs in 64 hours, 17 worked in lab
dr_alphalyrae · x · 2026-10-21
Citrini Therapeutics spent 3 months working with Anthropic's internal research model to test what AI can really do in bio, aiming to design an experimental scorpion antivenom.
- Launched 300+ Claude agents to run the research pipeline
- Designed 211 novel proteins in 64 hours and sent them to a lab
- 17 of the 211 designs actually bound their targets in testing
- Takeaway: a few people with AI can now do in days the computational design work that once required entire teams of specialized scientists — and this is just the beginning
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