How Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

Europe Science Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:53:04 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

Summary: As part of our work experimenting with how Claude can help accelerate drug discovery, we asked an internal research model to design minibinders (small proteins that attach tightly to a target) against scorpion neurotoxins.
Claude worked from our prompt and four follow-ups, which we developed in collaboration with the financial investment research firm Citrini Research.
Teams at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience experimentally tested 211 designs for binding.

Summary: As part of our work experimenting with how Claude can help accelerate drug discovery, we asked an internal research model to design minibinders (small proteins that attach tightly to a target) against scorpion neurotoxins.
Claude worked from our prompt and four follow-ups, which we developed in collaboration with the financial investment research firm Citrini Research.
Teams at Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience experimentally tested 211 designs for binding.

Sources: Anthropic