Claude Ran 950 Agents for 21 Hours and Came Back With a CRISPR-Like Enzyme

Anthropic's biology lab reports its first wet-lab result: Claude autonomously flagged a novel bacteriophage enzyme system with CRISPR-like properties, marking a shift from AI summarizing science to generating it.

Anthropic has produced what it describes as the first wet-lab result from its biology lab, and the framing is notable. According to @mikogen, Claude autonomously identified a novel CRISPR-like enzyme system — not by parroting existing literature, but by running an extended autonomous search that led to a candidate worth validating in the lab.

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