Anthropic Says Claude Helped Identify a CRISPR-Like Enzyme System in Phage DNA

Anthropic said Claude has helped identify a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, the first public result from the company's new life sciences research group and wet lab. The system, which Anthropic calls array-associated reverse transcriptases, or ART, is built around a reverse transcriptase and DNA repeat arrays that the company says are reminiscent of CRISPR-like biology.