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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (Anthropic Research)
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Anthropic says Claude autonomously found an enzyme system built on a known reverse transcriptase from a jumbo phage, paired with an array of non-coding DNA repeats and an accessory protein. Nobody knows yet what the system does.
In plain words
- Anthropic says its artificial intelligence program Claude independently found a previously unrecognized arrangement of biological parts.
- The system combines a protein that copies genetic material with repeated stretches of genetic material and another protein.
- The copying protein was already known, but Claude appears to have first noticed the surrounding arrangement.
- Researchers now have a new system to investigate, though nobody yet knows what it does.
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