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Research · Articlepublished 48d

Engineered probiotic combines local chemotherapy and immunotherapy in mouse tumours

A peer-reviewed Science Translational Medicine study engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 to activate chemotherapy and release two immune therapies inside tumours. The system produced local and systemic antitumour effects in mouse colorectal and melanoma models, but there is no human efficacy or safety evidence.

Science Translational Medicine - Engineered probiotics for tumor-targeted combination chemoimmunotherapy · PubMed - PMID 42748218
Research · Articlepublished 49d

OpenRSI Index opens long-horizon benchmark for model-development agents

OpenRSI Foundation has opened Preview v0.1, an Apache-2.0 benchmark stack that keeps a research agent in a persistent work container and evaluates each submission in a fresh judge with private tests. The catalogue ranges from smaller public tasks to model-training runs measured in thousands of H100-hours, while the preview remains tied to moving main rather than an immutable software release.

OpenRSI Index - Preview v0.1 · OpenRSI Index - task samples
Research · Articlepublished 53d

OpenAI says internal model resolved 100+ open maths problems as independent review group forms

OpenAI says an internal model that began training on 28 August has resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics. An independent nine-member mathematics group is now advising on review and release, but the underlying results have not yet been published at scale or independently validated.

OpenAI - Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence · Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Research · Articlepublished 57d

Coding-agent harness choice moves cost more than success in Arena benchmark

Arena researchers compared 21 model-harness pairs across Claude Code, Codex CLI and Pi on 60 sampled benchmark tasks. They report that harness choice shifted average success rates only modestly while the same model could cost up to roughly five times more under a different harness; the study is not peer-reviewed and covers two open benchmarks that models may have encountered during training.

Arena — HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? · HarnessTax project site
Research · Articlepublished 57d

Nature study turns research papers into tested MCP agents

A peer-reviewed Nature paper introduces Paper2Agent, a system that converts computational research papers, code and supplementary material into tested MCP servers that an AI agent can call through natural language. In case studies spanning genomics and single-cell analysis, the generated tools reproduced reference outputs and handled new queries, although the evaluation covers a small set of computational papers rather than science in general.

Nature — Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
Research · Articlepublished 57d

Human cortical organoids form working circuits in cortex-depleted mice

A peer-reviewed Nature study transplanted human stem-cell-derived cortical organoids into mice genetically engineered to lack most cortical and hippocampal glutamatergic neurons. The grafts occupied much of the vacant cortical space, formed organised activity and connected into the host nervous system, creating a new in-vivo model for human neurodevelopment and injury.

Nature — Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice · Stanford Medicine — advanced model for studying brain development and disorders
Research · Articlepublished 57d

Clay says OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result has apparently settled a Millennium problem

OpenAI says an internal system using roughly 10,000 concurrent agents found a finite-time singularity for three-dimensional Navier-Stokes with smooth forcing and formalised the result in Lean. The Clay Mathematics Institute says the problem has "apparently been settled", while its prize review and the assignment of credit remain deliberately open.

OpenAI — On the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem · Clay Mathematics Institute — Navier-Stokes Announcement
Research · Articlepublished 57d

Half-century satellite record puts polar ice loss at 11.3 trillion tonnes

A peer-reviewed Scientific Data assessment combining 42 independent estimates from 27 satellite missions finds Greenland and Antarctica lost 11,309 ± 565 billion tonnes of ice from 1979 to 2023. The authors attribute 84% of the combined loss to glacier dynamical imbalance rather than surface mass balance.

Scientific Data — Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023 · Northumbria University — Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss