Articles tagged Crispr

Anthropic used AI to find a new enzyme system in viruses

Anthropic used its Claude AI to find an enzyme system in viruses that infect bacteria. Part of the system looks a bit like the gene-editing tool CRISPR.

A new CRISPR tool destroys cancer cells by shredding their DNA

Almost half of all cancers carry the same broken gene, and for years, drugs meant to fix it have come up short.