Anthropic's Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic's new life sciences lab let Claude autonomously search DNA databases for 21 hours. It found a previously uncharacterized enzyme system, ART, with an array of non-coding DNA repeats reminiscent of CRISPR. Claude handled literature review, candidate filtering, and report writing; scientists only gave the initial prompt and ran lab validation. The post does not disclose what the system actually does—the team says that work is ongoing.

Why it matters: Anthropic's official post: Claude completed a full autonomous research loop and discovered a novel enzyme system (ART), with concrete experimental data. Cross-disciplinary appeal — both AI agent capability boundaries and biological discovery. Not 95+ because it's an early resu...