A biologist queries whether AI ‘borrowed’ his work to make major discovery
The Conversation · 8 Oct 2026

A biologist queries whether AI ‘borrowed’ his work to make major discovery

AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms. The new group of enzymes were discovered in bacteriophages – viruses


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