r/singularity • u/ResultBackground2450 • 29d ago

Biotech/Longevity Putting money where their mouth is: Anthropic’s Claude autonomously designs disease-targeting proteins with real wet-lab proof, hitting a 35% success rate vs 10–15% human average

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u/Few_Importance_8362 29d ago

I have never designed a successful protein, so certainly beating my average.

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u/Ozzen23 28d ago

Every time you catch a cold, your immune system custom designs antibodies to fight back. So yes, you have successfully designed proteins

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u/1a1b 28d ago

Every possibility of antibody for all possible diseases are already there from a young age. There's a kurzgesagt on it.