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Proteomic studies, billion dollar pharma deals, WHO initiatives,  and more led the news this week.
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Alzheimer’s disease often overlaps with other causes of cognitive decline. A new proteomics project aims to untangle that mixture and help researchers identify the right patients for future clinical trials.
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Researchers showed that before cancer cells metastasize the brain, they enter a “proliferative pause” that can be targeted with drugs to prevent metastasis altogether.
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John Yu built Kairos Pharma on a simple bet: Cancer drugs don't fail, tumors just learn to outrun them.
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Phase 2b data for EloraTZP suggest the next gains in obesity will come from stacking hormone pathways, and that tolerability may decide who wins.

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Imagene AI's quantitative pathology and CellCarta's CDx infrastructure offer biopharma sponsors one path from AI biomarker assay to regulatory submission
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As 3D cell models advance toward mainstream use, the field must learn to work with biological variability rather than against it.

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