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Anthropic's wet lab experiment demonstrates a significant shift toward using AI agents to autonomously conduct physical biological discovery, compressing a process that typically takes years into just 21 hours of computational effort. While the specific enzyme system requires independent validation by the broader scientific community, this approach highlights the emerging potential for AI to accelerate fundamental research in molecular biology and gene editing.

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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

TechCrunchSeptember 23, 20263 min read

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments. This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery: a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of CRISPR,” as Anthropic describes it.…

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