Claude spots a mystery enzyme scientists overlooked Autonomous agents flagged a family of phage enzymes with CRISPR-like repeats, though what the system does remains unknown. Written byAndrea Corona

Claude spots a mystery enzyme scientists overlooked Autonomous agents flagged a family of phage enzymes with CRISPR-like repeats, though what the system does remains unknown. Written byAndrea Corona https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/claude-spots-a-mystery-enzyme-scientists-overlooked-17549 AI has already changed how scientists predict protein structures and design new molecules. The next leap may be discovery itself, with agents that read raw biological data, spot what looks strange, and chase it down on their own. A new study offers an early glimpse of that future, and of what it could mean for the hunt for the next generation of therapeutic tools. Researchers at Anthropic reported that a team of autonomous large language model (LLM) agents surveyed reverse transcriptase (RT) genes across 1.9 billion metagenomic protein clusters and surfaced a new family of the enzymes, along with the repeat arrays that define it.