Cancer
A Korean lab found cancer’s DNA-repair off-switch. In a mouse.
A tool compound strips the DNA-repair proteins tumors use to dodge PARP inhibitors. Preclinical only — but the gap between treated and control animals is the story.
Metabolic
Where your sodium actually comes from
~71% of dietary sodium arrives via processed food. The saltshaker accounts for 6–20%. The numbers make most restaurant-labeling policy look like theater.
Drugs & FDA
Europe had this sunscreen in 1999. The FDA approved it Tuesday.
Twenty-seven years of regulatory lag, distilled into one approval notice. What the hold-up actually was, and what it wasn’t.
Infectious Disease
A DoD-funded fentanyl vaccine is headed to Phase 1
Antibodies don’t stop a supply chain. The trial design is sound. The policy translation is another matter entirely.
Brain & Aging
The Alzheimer’s drug that bets the plaques are a symptom
If amyloid is downstream, clearing it treats a signal, not a cause. The mechanism argument is now the trial’s biggest liability.
Autoimmune
Fish oil rewired the T-cells in non-obese diabetic rats
Cancer