Claude discovers new gene-editing tool in 21 hours: What this breakthrough means for science
Anthropic has announced that its flagship AI model, Claude, has autonomously discovered a completely novel enzyme system with structural features reminiscent of CRISPR — the groundbreaking gene-editing technology that revolutionised modern medicine and biotechnology.
Rather than assisting human researchers with administrative tasks, writing code, or summarising research papers, this marks the moment when advanced AI models are now actively driving primary scientific discovery.
