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title: "CRISPR"
description: "1 posts about CRISPR, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# CRISPR
> 1 posts about CRISPR, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Claude discovers a novel enzyme system](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-discovers-a-novel-enzyme-system.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic launched a new life sciences research group to use AI agents for fundamental biology discovery. In one of their first programs, Claude agents autonomously analyzed over 200,000 reverse transcriptase sequences from a DNA database. After 21 hours and 210 million tokens, one agent spotted a repeating DNA pattern next to a reverse transcriptase gene, which it identified as a CRISPR-like system. The system, called ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases), consists of the RT, an accessory protein, and an array of non-coding DNA repeats that are expressed as distinct small RNAs. Its function remains unknown, but the pattern of repeats is only found together in other programmable DNA-cutting systems, suggesting ART may be a new tool for biotechnology.