Claude helped plan work with highly pathogenic avian influenza, Anthropic reported. Experts say the company provided too little detail to determine whether the AI sped up existing work or granted new capabilities.
In patients treated for blood cancers, eating sugary foods during antibiotic therapy was associated with a larger drop in gut bacterial diversity than antibiotics alone, and with growth of bacteria linked to hard-to-treat infections, researchers report in Nature.
A small pilot project replacing gas stoves with electric ones in Cleveland households reported asthma symptom improvements larger than typically seen with medication, though the study was cut short.