Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
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An LLM surfacing a previously undescribed enzyme system in phage DNA is a concrete example of AI moving from summarization to hypothesis generation in biology. R&D-heavy orgs should be piloting similar workflows now — with tight human validation — rather than waiting for a consensus playbook.
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