Claude Designed 211 Proteins in Two Days. The Memes-in-Slack Phase Took Two Months

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Citrini Research used an unreleased Anthropic model to design scorpion toxin binders in 64 hours, then spent two months waiting on a wet lab. 17 of 211 bound.

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