MIT researchers used AI to discover hundreds of CRISPR-like proteins in bacterial genomes within minutes—a breakthrough that could accelerate gene-editing research and unlock new therapeutic tools far beyond what traditional methods could uncover in
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MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools
Hundreds New CRISPR-like proteins discovered
Minutes Discovery time with AI
Weeks To Months Traditional discovery time
Up To 25% Daily Bacterial population loss from phages
Minutes Vs Weeks/Months discovery speed
25% Population Loss Per Day bacterial threat