Anthropic's Claude Designs 17 Protein Binders Against Scorpion Neurotoxins in 64-Hour Research Campaign

Anthropic has announced that Claude, its large language model, successfully designed 17 novel protein binders against dangerous scorpion neurotoxins through a largely autonomous 64-hour research campaign, marking an early step toward improving treatment options for the estimated 1.2 million people stung by scorpions annually. The company generated 318,484 protein designs using 12 publicly available protein design tools and computationally screened 553,052 protein-toxin interactions. Scientists at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience then tested 211 selected candidate proteins in the laboratory, with 17 meeting strict binding criteria.