Moderna's Cancer Therapy Rename May Mislead Physicians
Moderna mRNA cancer treatment used to be called a "cancer vaccine" but in 2023 they switched to "individualized neoantigen therapy." Some docs think the name change is misleading. https://t.co/UIn2djdDAv
Reversed DNA Life Sparks Ethical Dilemma for Scientists
Mirror life -- with DNA spiraling the other way -- would have no predators and we'd have no defenses against it. And it raises a familiar question: What should scientists do when they see the shadow of the end of...
Citizen Scientist Exposes Fraud, Secures $15M Return
Remarkable story of an underemployed scientific sleuth, David Shloto, who spend his free time digging into image duplication in Dana Farber papers. He sued for fraud forcing cancer institution to disgorge about $15 mm in NIH grants. Here's his video. https://t.co/wXblELJCdZ
Aging May Be Evolutionary Program, Not Random Decay
Is aging programmable? It implies there IS a program created by evolution, not only accident or entropy. But that's a debate. Here's a paper by business consultant Michael Ringel, on this very topic, with many good citations. https://t.co/fREM4AHnJG
Debating Brainless Clones as Personal
Are you pro-bodyoid or anti-bodyoid? For the purpose of this poll, a bodyoid is: a newborn clone of you lacking a cortex, a.k.a. a brainless clone, gestated by a paid surrogate. It's organs are a perfect match (isogenic) to you...
Brainless Clones: Expensive, Unethical, and Scientifically Useless
This thread explores many interesting aspects of brainless clones. It raises the issue of whether this is even useful (including as animal model) It surfaces the terminology "decorticate" which is what's in the literature.
R3 Bio's Push for Brainless Human Clones Sparks Ethical Debate
Here's our story about R3 Bio and the entrepreneur dreaming of brainless human clones. https://t.co/ZJpdffTKNP
Asexual Clones Accumulate Mutations, Facing Inevitable Extinction
They cloned a mouse and kept cloning. It went 58 generations before it just couldn't "This model predicts that in asexual lineages, deleterious mutations inevitably accumulate, ultimately producing mutational meltdown and extinction."
Nominate Under‑35 Biotech Trailblazers for 2026 Award
Do you know an up and coming someone killing it in biotech? If they're under 35 years of age, please nominate them for the 2026 Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Award. (or just email me. address is in bio) https://t.co/90fwj4GjNU
FDA's Prasad Paradox: Conflicting Strictness on Bespoke Therapies
Predictions for cell therapy and gene therapy in 2026. Most interesting is the "Prasad Paradox", meaning a general state of contradiction at the FDA biologics division around laxness and strictness, including misapplication of the concept of "bespoke" therapies.
