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Biosecurity: the line so far
2 developments, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
It shows a frontier lab running end-to-end discovery with its own wet lab, raising both the promise and the biosecurity questions of agentic biology.
- Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature
It offers DNA-synthesis screeners a way to verify that unfamiliar sequences came from vetted models, a practical biosecurity layer for open protein design.