{"id":246718,"date":"2026-11-06T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/an-ai-model-has-found-a-new-crispr-like-biological-system-heres-what-it-means-for-science"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:39:09","slug":"an-ai-model-has-found-a-new-crispr-like-biological-system-heres-what-it-means-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/an-ai-model-has-found-a-new-crispr-like-biological-system-heres-what-it-means-for-science","title":{"rendered":"An AI model has found a new \u2018CRISPR-like\u2019 biological system. Here\u2019s what it means for science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"An AI model has found a new \u2018CRISPR-like\u2019 biological system. Here\u2019s what it means for science\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DdCEmlAydcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After coding, mathematics and chatbots, AI companies are setting their sights on the messy world of biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coding, mathematics and chatbots, AI companies are setting their sights on the messy world of biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}