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Coerced sex or a jealous ex? Jury weighs dueling accounts of star scientist David Sabatini’s downfall

Was molecular biologist David Sabatini a manipulative mentor who coerced a younger colleague into sex? Or was he the victim ...
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Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr.

U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides, a class of ...
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Merck and Moderna have ‘lot of exploring to do’ after initial cancer vaccine success

Stephen Hoge and Dean Li, at the STAT Summit, spoke of how Merck and Moderna will pair Keytruda with personalized mRNA ...
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Verastem’s KRAS inhibitor shows promise in pancreatic cancer

Verastem Oncology reports encouraging early results for its KRAS G12D inhibitor, which it’s studying in more than 200 ...
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After a melanoma diagnosis, mRNA cancer vaccine delivered a patient hope — and a path forward

A schoolteacher diagnosed with melanoma provides an inside look at what it was like to be treated with a cancer vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna.
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about former FDA head calling DOGE a ‘disaster,’ an AstraZeneca AI deal, and more

Three former FDA chiefs lit into the Trump administration, criticizing the now former FDA officials who oversaw a massive ...
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‘AI sandboxes’ are all the rage. Advocates scramble to control their future

Day two of the STAT Summit is just kicking off as this newsletter lands in inboxes.