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Discovered originally by Professor Lenny Rome and Nancy Kedersha in animal cells, Claude helps discover vaults in bacteria and archaea.
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Exclusive: Artificial intelligence has tackled a mystery that has flummoxed cell biologists for decades.

Today, Anthropic reports its key #AI model, Claude, has helped unearth new clues about vaults—strange, barrellike structures, found by the thousands in animal and plant cells, that still have no known function despite scores of studies.

In a blog post and related preprint, Anthropic describes how its small team of in-house biologists, guided by Claude, produced the first direct evidence that bacteria, viruses, and perhaps other simple microbes also make the odd structures.

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