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Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays

A running theme in Matt Wood’s FYI — 5 items spanning 2026-09-08 – 2026-09-24. This page compounds: new items on this theme are added as they’re posted. Tracked since 2026-09-24.

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Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arraysAI in ScienceAI in Science broadly covers AI's role in research; this item is a concrete instantiation showing how AI agents move beyond assistance into autonomous discovery — identifying the ART family through internal signal responses to sequence patterns represents a qualitative advance described by that broader framing

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Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays

Claude identified the ART family by directly examining its DNA sequences and recognizing the atypical repeats, a behavior attributable to specific Mythos 5 internal signals that respond to repeated DNA.

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The Millennium Problems for Biology

A collection of three major unsolved biological challenges: demonstrating the laboratory emergence of life from chemical precursors, cryopreserving and recovering intact mammals, and creating an enzyme that can reverse-translate peptide sequences into genetic code.

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AI in Science

Google's document exploring the applications, opportunities, and implications of artificial intelligence across scientific research and discovery.

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SWE-bench Science: Coding Agents in Scientific Software Engineering

A benchmark of 119 scientific software engineering tasks across 20 domains that evaluates coding agents' ability to repair scientific software and identifies key failure mechanisms including knowledge deficits, shallow repairs, and poor generalization.

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AlphaGenome Atlas

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome Atlas, a new AI model and resource for genomic research and analysis.

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