Claude Discovers CRISPR-Like Enzyme System

Techno-skeptic narrative

Spotting an odd gene cluster next to a repeat array is the easy part, and genome-neighborhood mining has been doing it for decades with mature, published pipelines. The hard work is proving what a system actually does, and there's no evidence yet of any programmable properties that would justify the CRISPR comparison. Hyping incremental findings as a major discovery cheapens the real breakthrough when it finally arrives.