# Anthropic uses Claude to discover novel bacteriophage enzyme system

The newly identified system contains repeating DNA structures similar to CRISPR that may cut, copy, and paste DNA.

- The finding marks the first result from Anthropic's new internal molecular biology lab.
- Anthropic biologists use Claude to analyze data and literature to generate biological hypotheses, which human scientists then test in the lab.
- Anthropic plans to expand this AI-assisted hypothesis generation workflow to broader genomics and scientific problems.

## Why it matters

Demonstrates that LLMs can generate actionable biological hypotheses leading to wet-lab discoveries of potential programmable genetic tools.

## Sources

- [Anthropic: Anthropic uses Claude to discover novel bacteriophage enzyme system](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2102824959827742916)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-23. https://dstilled.ai/story/5c37927c-3f0b-4beb-8f64-1e2c6758d8ec