

Matt Durrant
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@mgdurrant
Life Science Researcher @AnthropicAI. Share feedback on Claude for biology: https://t.co/Rw2bRsK87c



Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

We then leveraged TRADE editing to "capture" entire pathways in vivo and move them between species without ever needing to extract their DNA--just molecular biology accomplished fully within the microbes. This allowed us to move functions across phyla.

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

We then leveraged TRADE editing to "capture" entire pathways in vivo and move them between species without ever needing to extract their DNA--just molecular biology accomplished fully within the microbes. This allowed us to move functions across phyla.

Bridge recombinase enables versatile rewriting of bacterial genomes biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_synbio



Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.



Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

I'll give Anthropic credit for moving quickly. Opus 4.7 Adaptive Thinking now triggers thinking much more often, including for the tasks it failed at yesterday. That also means it is doing a lot more web search. So far, a large improvement in output quality on non-coding tasks.

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.
