ScienceClaude reportedly helps find a CRISPR-like system whose function remains unknown
The Economic Times, citing Anthropic, reports that Claude helped researchers identify ARTs in bacterial DNA. The system has repeated DNA sequences resembling CRISPR, but scientists are still studying what it does.
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The Economic Times reports that Anthropic credits Claude with helping researchers find a previously unknown enzyme system called ARTs, or array-associated reverse transcriptases. It contains a reverse transcriptase and repeated DNA sequences resembling CRISPR. What that resemblance means remains unresolved: Gizmodo reports that Anthropic cannot say what the system is capable of.
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Claude reportedly helps find a CRISPR-like system whose function remains unknown
The Economic Times, citing Anthropic, reports that Claude helped researchers identify ARTs in bacterial DNA. The system has repeated DNA sequences resembling CRISPR, but scientists are still studying what it does.