Anthropic Says Claude Agents Found a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System in Its First Lab Program

Anthropic said Claude agents have identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeat features, marking an early result from the company’s new life sciences research group and Bay Area biology lab. The company said roughly 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours and used 210 million tokens to search DNA-sequence data, narrowing more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases into 3,500 candidate systems and 20 human-readable reports before scientists reviewed and tested the finding.