Anthropic says Claude AI has found a 'previously unknown enzyme system' in human DNA that could rival CRISPR

From the Newshound archive · first published 24 September 2026.

Anthropic's Claude AI has identified a "previously unknown enzyme system" inside DNA that the company likens to CRISPR, the Nobel prize-winning gene-editing breakthrough. Anthropic's chief executive Dario Amodei cautioned that it will "take much more work" to establish what the system does. The announcement also revealed that Anthropic has quietly opened a biology lab in California where Claude generates hypotheses and tests them in real life.