# Anthropic Uses Claude to Help Solve First 3D Structure of a Prokaryotic Vault Particle as OpenAI Releases a 100-Task Wet-Lab Benchmark

Anthropic's lab confirmed four structures by cryo-electron microscopy in work that is not yet peer-reviewed, and OpenAI's best model scored 66.7% on routine lab-data tasks with no human baseline.

- Published: 2026-11-09T06:17:39.329Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-11-09/anthropic-uses-claude-to-help-solve-first-3d-structure-of-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
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- Sources: [Anthropic Research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-vault-particles-with-claude)

Anthropic's biology team reported on November 4 that Claude helped map the first 3D structure of a vault particle from prokaryotic cells. Vaults are large protein shells that researchers first described in 1986, and their function is still…

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