Morning Edition · Saturday, November 14, 2026Published at 1:20 AM EST · New York
The model searched about 15 billion predicted proteins and designed DNA for candidates. Seven of 15 expressed proteins formed vault-like shells, and Anthropic documents two model errors, one of which cost about two weeks.

Anthropic's biology team reported on November 4 the first three-dimensional structure of a vault particle from a prokaryote. The particle is formed by L05, a bacteriophage protein. Vaults are large hollow protein shells first identified in…
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