SITUATION EXPLAINED: A stock research firm with almost no science background just used Claude to design potential scorpion antivenoms. • Citrini Research’s 5-person team put up $200K and worked with an internal Anthropic research model • Their first request was blocked by biosecurity guardrails, so they ran the prompts in person at Anthropic’s offices • Antivenom is still made by injecting horses with scorpion venom, which costs $39M a gallon, about $500 a drop. Scorpions sting 1M+ people a…

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New on our Science Blog: designing protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins. Scorpions sting about 1.2m people every year, and antivenoms are often costly or in short supply. Claude has made an early step toward finding new treatments. https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design