Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Big Muddy is Jean-Paul R. Soucy's blog about technology, science, politics, and other curiosities.
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Apart from looking like he has just been on the losing end of a fistfight, and having occasional bouts of nausea, Ben Sasse seems to be doing as well as someone recently diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer possibly could. Both the nausea and his face peeling off are because of daraxonrasib, a new drug which targets KRAS G12 mutations which are common in many cancers but are found in most pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). As a reminder, PDAC is the one that Steve Jobs did not have, the one that has the dubious distinction of being both the most common and the most lethal cancer of the pancreas.
Fallacies Forthcoming: Why Mazzucato’s Latest Is Already Outdated by Laura Williams Economics is a peculiar science. On the one hand, it is the queen of the social sciences and offers a powerful logic for understanding the world. On the other, as Henry Hazlitt put it, it is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. People simply love to misunderstand economics. Ironically, this presents a profit opportunity to those who choose to exploit people’s willing ignorance…especially if they are economists.
A call for help in continuing the 1,200-year record of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto also shows an incredible […]
Caro Claire Burke's debut novel Yesteryear fails on its own terms.
Research helps explain why pancreas tumor cells can develop undetected for long periods of time, and opens opportunities for treatment with newer immunotherapy drugs.