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3 stories tagged "clinical-trials"

Infectious Disease

The AI Vaccine That 'Passed' Its First Trial Three Years Ago

Cambridge finished the Phase 1 trial in 2023. The press tour arrived in 2026. The paper, when you read it, said the immunogenicity was modest.

Cancer

ALTAIR Missed Its Primary Endpoint. The Press Tour Found Something Else.

A phase 3 trial testing chemotherapy in ctDNA-positive colorectal cancer patients missed its primary endpoint at p=0.107, and a post-hoc reanalysis is doing the public-facing work.

Cancer

Pancreatic cancer's undruggable wall just cracked. The follow-up is 8.5 months and the money was already placed.

Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib nearly doubled median overall survival versus chemotherapy in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer at ASCO 2026, with 8.5 months of follow-up and a two-billion-dollar Royalty Pharma deal already riding on what comes next.