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Anthropic says 950 Claude agents scanned more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours, identifying a novel system called ART that researchers later validated in a laboratory

The finding is notable because the arrangement of these repeats resembles the architecture of CRISPR (Photo: Freepik)

Vrinda Goel New Delhi 4 min read Last Updated : Sep 25 2026 | 2:38 PM IST

Anthropic has claimed that its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude has autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system associated with an array of DNA repeats. The finding is notable because the arrangement of these repeats resembles the architecture of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology that has transformed modern medicine and biotechnology.

Anthropic published its findings as a pre-print on September 23. The research has not yet undergone peer review, and the company says the biological function of the newly identified system is still not known.

The system has been named ART, short for array-associated reverse transcriptase. It is found primarily in bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, and consists of three components: a reverse transcriptase (RT), a partner gene located beside it and a long array of evenly spaced DNA repeat sequences.

Reverse transcriptase is an enzyme, or a tiny biological machine, that reads RNA, a molecule carrying genetic instructions, and produces matching DNA. This is the reverse of the process cells usually follow. Some bacteria use reverse transcriptases as part of their basic immune defence against viruses.


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