Artificial intelligence has once again achieved a milestone in the forefront of life sciences. The newly established molecular biology laboratory at Anthropic has recently made its first major breakthrough: by deploying a cluster of 950 AI agents running continuously for 21 hours, consuming approximately 210 million Tokens, it successfully discovered a brand-new enzyme system that had never been recorded before in human history — the Array-Linked Reverse Transcriptase system (ART), derived from bacteriophage DNA.

According to the information, this newly discovered enzyme system is structurally highly similar to CRISPR, known as the "Scissors of God," and possesses characteristics such as cutting, copying, and pasting DNA. Throughout the entire exploration process, human researchers only provided initial guidance, while the entire workflow, including literature review, sequence alignment, and candidate screening, was completed efficiently by the AI on its own. Subsequently, after being reviewed and verified through rigorous wet-lab experiments by human scientists, the existence of this previously uncharacterized enzyme system was finally confirmed.

This major breakthrough has significantly shortened the long period traditionally required to discover new enzyme systems, and is widely regarded as having completely rewritten the research paradigm in life sciences. With the deep empowerment of artificial intelligence technology, the grand vision of curing most serious diseases within the next 5 to 10 years has also shown more realistic possibilities.