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This is a win for the field. Until now, we have been focused on immune therapies that might make tumors more vulnerable to the body's immune system, and on finding new chemotherapy combinations that kill cancer cells. This new treatment has given us a new focus, and I think it will spur a lot of scientific discovery over the next few years. There have only been a handful of KRAS researchers and their relevance to therapy was always questioned. That is about to change. The most important next step for the field is to better understand the biology of cancer. We know that many pancreatic tumors will eventually become resistant to daraxonrasib, and we need to understand how this happens. We also need to identify additional genetic pathways and treatments that can target them. That's how we will turn pancreas cancer from a deadly, deadly cancer into something we can manage-and one day, even cure.

Toxicology is a very diverse field, spanning chemistry, biology, and clinical science. Data varies enormously in accessibility, quantity, quality, terminology, and format. That makes it a complex domain for AI, but also one where AI can be very useful when applied carefully. A realistic AI-assisted safety pipeline today is not about replacing the expert toxicologist. It is about augmentation. AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs) can autonomously search for data, collate information, generate summaries, and produce plots. This allows safety scientists to bring their expertise to bear more efficiently, while AI helps uncover and organize the evidence. We should also remember task-specific models. DeepDILI, for example, combined classical and deep learning approaches to predict drug-induced liver injury (DILI), a major cause of post-marketing drug withdrawals. Models like this can have a real impact when focused on specific safety pain points.

You're average biomedical researcher is dealing with a huge amount of new information every day. You're getting over 10,000 new publications uploaded on a daily basis worldwide across all the biomedical journals and databases, so there is no way that one researcher can actually even access, let alone read all these huge amounts of data. What we have to do is use deep learning to be able to help us ingest all that data and do some initial deep triage of that data to surface new therapeutic opportunities. It’s meant to provide insight for our biologists and chemists, so they can actually deal with a usable amount of information.

Algae are photosynthetic aquatic creatures that grow through the consumption of nutrients, light, and carbon dioxide. They are a diverse group of creatures that include tiny single-celled algae and enormous kelp, as well as seaweed 1. Numerous prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae species are desirable food sources for humans due to their inherent qualities 2,3. Human intake of macroalgae such as seaweed and microalgae like phytoplankton dates back many years. Multicellular macroscopic aquatic plants, or macroalgae, are classified into three taxa: Phaeophyceae, or brown algae, Rhodophyta or red algae, and Chlorophyta or green algae. Microalgae, the unicellular counterpart of macroalgae, are categorized in a broader framework that includes prokaryotic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), Euglenophyta, and Chlorophyta, which are genetically distinct from one another. The ancient populations of Chad and the Aztec culture were already familiar with the cyanobacteria spirulina, which is currently advertised as a superfood in the West 4. In Burma, Vietnam, and India, other cyanobacteria/microalgae, like Spirogyra and Oedogonium, were eaten as food or as a supplement 4. Seaweed is a staple of daily meals in many Asian and Pacific civilizations, including Korea, Japan, and Indonesia, as well as Hawaii and New Zealand 5.

Biologically, vitamins are absorbed within hours and have instant metabolic effects, such as antioxidants that protect cells or compounds that are building blocks for making hormones. But, many factors impact their efficiency and could keep your body from fully absorbing them. Absorption and effects depend on each individual and what combination of vitamins they take. Gender, age, digestive health, medical conditions, and diet all play a role. One helpful practice to detect deficiencies is to look for the symptoms deficiencies create. Then, look for improvement in your symptoms with supplement intake. You are unlikely to see or feel changes if you do not lack nutrients. If you are chronically tired or see signs of unhealthy nails, hair, or skin, supplements may help as these are indicators that you are lacking nutrients in your diet. If you are unsure, your doctor can order tests to check for deficiencies in your blood.