Has AI arrived as a scientific discoverer? Claude’s new CRISPR-like discovery uncovers a hidden enzyme system that scientists had missed in bacterial DNA
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Anthropic says Claude has helped researchers find a previously unknown enzyme system in bacterial DNA. They call it ARTs, or array-associated reverse transcriptases. The system has a reverse transcriptase and repeated DNA sequences that resemble CRISPR. Scientists are now studying what it actually does.