Oregano, rosemary and ‘time’: Long-term swine study shows natural-compound benefits
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In a rare long-term public study that compared the effects of phytochemicals from rosemary and oregano with antibiotic growth promoters, animal scientists with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station found that the natural agents given to weaned pigs supported favorable gut health and growth performance later in their lives by preserving microbial diversity to improve nutrient utilization.
Computational biologists developed a simple way to test a language model’s understanding of proteins. The method holds potential to improve a range of language models in science.
A large multi-site study published in JAMA found that AI-powered ambient documentation technologies, or AI scribes, were associated with modest reductions in clinicians’ EHR use (13 minutes/day) and documentation time (16 minutes/day, ~10%), along with a slight increase in productivity. The benefits were most evident in high-frequency users, and are unlikely to fully explain prior reported improvements in burnout, highlighting the need for further research on how these tools reshape clinical workflows.
Today's most advanced artificial intelligence systems lack such bodily mechanisms and a new study by UCLA Health argues that this has significant implications for how these models behave as well as how safe and trustworthy they can become.