Matt Durrant

Life Science Researcher @AnthropicAI. Share feedback on Claude for biology:

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

Thrilled to share that I have joined @AnthropicAI as a life science researcher! I am confident that Claude will do amazing things to accelerate biology. Big things ahead!

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

Opus 4.8 is almost as good as Claude Mythos in most of biology benchmarks! 🔥🔥

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Excited to release Opus 4.8 today! We heard your feedback on 4.7 and have made many fixes for 4.8.

4.8 understands nuances better, feels much more natural to talk to, and is overall a stronger collaborator on everything from coding to knowledge work.

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

With the help of Claude Mythos Preview, the Firefox team fixed more security bugs in April than in the past 15 months combined.

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

"We anticipate that bridge recombinases, together with advances in predictive bRNA design and bacterial delivery systems, will form a foundation for “synthetic microbiomics”, the systematic, programmable orchestration of gene flow within complex microbial ecosystems."

[Brady Cress @bradyfcress]

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

One of the many amazing parts of this paper that you might have missed at first glance!

[Brady Cress @bradyfcress]

We then leveraged TRADE editing to "capture" entire pathways in vivo and move them between species without ever needing to extract their DNA--just molecular biology accomplished fully within the microbes. This allowed us to move functions across phyla.

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

Pioneering work from the @bradyfcress lab using bridge recombinases to perform programmable genomic rearrangements in diverse species (multiple phyla). Congrats to @jayman14661, @swartz_sophi, Agnès Oromí-Bosch, and team!

[Brady Cress @bradyfcress]

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

[Richard Allen White III, PhD @raw9371]

From @bradyfcress revolutionary work!

[Nick Parker @NickParkerPrint]

Bridge RNA stuff keeps floating across my timeline with more and more insanely impressive results.

[Brady Cress @bradyfcress]

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

[Brian Hie @BrianHie]

A beautiful story on the origins of CRISPR -- congrats to @PeterHYoon @kenjmloi and team!

Cool to see the Evo 2 likelihoods being useful for identifying a tricky repeat region.

https://t.co/cV3MN217HR

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

An incredible new discovery from the @DoudnaJennifer lab! A mechanistically distinct RNA-guided system with enormous evolutionary and biotechnological implications. Congratulations to @kenjmloi, @PeterHYoon, and the team!

[Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi]

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.

We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.

Thread + link below.

[Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi]

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.

We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.

Thread + link below.

[Ben Siranosian, PhD @BenSiranosian]

I'm finding Opus 4.7 way more capable at managing, debugging, and executing long-running pipelines. This is the first model I trust to not only write the code but actually run it on all my samples!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We're launching the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program.

AI will accelerate progress in science and engineering. We're looking for experts across these fields to work alongside our research teams on specific projects over a few months.

Learn more and apply: https://t.co/MoF60j53pX

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

@DrMichelleMLi @CarnegieMellon @cmu_bme Congratulations Michelle!

[Ryan Mather @Flomerboy]

🧵 My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design! I’m on the verticals team at Anthropic which means I serve 7 different products. Claude Design makes it possible!
1. Set up your design system and your core screens. An hour of setup and refinement here is worth it

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

A lot of bugs that folks may have hit yesterday when first trying Opus 4.7 are now fixed. Thanks for bearing with us🙏

[Matt Durrant @mgdurrant]

An amazing way to take all your project materials and immediately convert them into a beautiful presentation, I’ve loved Claude Design since the first time I used it.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Surag Nair @suragnair]

Agents for computational biology are advancing rapidly, but evals are lagging. Current benchmarks can be overly prescriptive. Full analysis vignettes are hard to verify. We introduce CompBioBench: 100 diverse, challenging, verifiable tasks + benchmark general-purpose agents. 1/9