Rohan Paul

Wild stuff. Anthropic’s new wet lab got its first win after 949 Claude agents autonomously tracked down a new enzyme system in just 21 hours. Claude was searching a huge amount of genetic data when it noticed an unusual pattern: the same small piece of DNA repeating again and again next to an enzyme. The campaign searched 1.94B protein clusters, recovered 198,290 RT clusters, and used 215.6M tokens across 21.5 hours. That pattern looked a little like CRISPR, so Anthropic’s scientists investigated it and found a new family of biological systems they call ART. The system also produces many small RNA molecules, suggesting those repeated DNA sections are doing something useful rather than sitting there randomly.