The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a treatment for pancreatic cancer that, in clinical trials, nearly doubled the overall survival time for patients. The drug, daraxonrasib, sold under the brand name Rasonque and manufactured by Revolution Medicines, appears to be a breakthrough in treating one of the world’s deadliest cancers. A late-stage clinical
People with food allergies are advised to avoid the allergen because treatments are limited.Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Six people who were highly allergic to peanuts can tolerate the nut after receiving a faecal transplant, reports a study published on 5 August in Science Translational Medicine. The small trial1 of 15 people is the first evidence
In late 2024, artificial intelligence reached PhD-level performance on scientific-reasoning benchmarks, and in 2025 it approached the measurement ceiling for one such test. In response, I developed an AI module and taught it to incoming biomedical PhD students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where I direct AI initiatives for the interdisciplinary graduate pathway. As
Horror-movie directors are always looking for new ways to transgress. Eli Roth is a prime example — he once transgressed brilliantly, in “Hostel: Part II” (an eerily plausible movie about members of the elite paying huge sums to murder people in a warehouse in Slovakia), and he did it in an impish way in “Thanksgiving,”
