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One Bad Trial, One Big Problem: How a Flawed Study Skewed Prozac Guidance for Children
5 October, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
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A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Just Passed a Phase III Trial — Here’s What It Means
Posted on 1 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For decades, the idea of a vaccine that trains your immune system to fight your own tumour has been theoretically compelling and practically elusive. This week, that changed. Moderna and Merck announced that intismeran — a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine — reduced melanoma recurrence in a phase III clinical trial, marking the first time an mRNA-based cancer treatment has succeeded at this scale.
The result doesn’t just matter for melanoma. It’s a proof-of-concept moment with implications...
Cancer Cases Could Surge 67% Worldwide by 2050
Posted on 8 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
The numbers are stark. In 2024, nearly 21 million people were diagnosed with cancer globally, and 9.8 million died from the disease. Now cases will reach 34 million by 2050 — a 67% increase driven almost entirely by population growth and aging, before any changes in risk factor exposure are factored in.
For anyone working at the intersection of oncology, public health, or life sciences, this report lands as both a warning and a challenge.
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From Undruggable to Unstoppable: How Daraxonrasib Is Rewriting the RAS Story
Posted on 9 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For decades, RAS proteins occupied a peculiar position in oncology: among the most commonly mutated drivers of cancer, yet effectively out of reach for targeted therapy. That designation — “undruggable” — is now being dismantled at pace.
Just one week after the US FDA granted approval to daraxonrasib (Rasonque) for advanced pancreatic cancer, new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine on September 2 show the same drug shrinking tumours in more than 30% of participants...
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The Virtual Biotech: When 37,000 AI Agents Go Drug Hunting
Posted on 19 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
Drug discovery has always been a numbers game. The more hypotheses you can generate and test, the better your odds of finding something that works. What happens when you remove the practical ceiling on how many scientists can work a problem simultaneously?
A team at Stanford University, led by computer scientist James Zou, has spent the past year building an answer. They call it the Virtual Biotech — an artificial-intelligence system that replicates the organizational structure of a drug...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 21 October.
- US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
- Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
- Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
- 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
- Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
- Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
- Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
- During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
- Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
- Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
- Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
- JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
- Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
- Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
- Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
- 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
- Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
- Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.