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Anthropic Uses 950 Claude AI Agents to Discover Enzyme System

Anthropic’s Claude AI helped researchers analyze more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases, leading to the discovery of a previously uncharacterized enzyme system. Image generated via ChatGPT.

Anthropic used roughly 950 Claude AI agents to analyze more than 200,000 enzymes and uncover a previously uncharacterized biological system.

Sep 24, 2026

Anthropic gave hundreds of Claude AI agents a massive biological search task. They surfaced an enzyme system scientists had not previously characterized.

The system, called array-associated reverse transcriptases, or ARTs, emerged from an AI-assisted search through more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases. Its repeating DNA structure shares some similarities with CRISPR systems, although researchers still do not know what ARTs actually do.

The findings have not undergone peer review, but the experiment offers an early look at a potentially important role for AI agents in science: searching enormous datasets, generating leads, and narrowing the candidates worth testing in the lab.

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