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Vishal Gulati (I back scientists)

@VishalGulati_

Specialist computational biology and cognitive automation VC. Not a fan of mouse click economy. Founded @RecodeVentures. https://t.co/AK9lCL0L1i

London, San Francisco Katılım Mart 2007
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Norn Group@NornGroup·
Imagine if key datasets like UK Biobank, the Protein Data Bank, and ImageNet had never been built. Without them, AlphaFold likely would not have advanced as quickly, genetic risk stratification would be far less developed, and progress in computer vision and self-driving would have been slower. What biology can do with AI in the next few years is decided now by what gets measured, standardized, and shared. We're planning an Impetus grants round to fund the next layer of AI-enabling, shared datasets that will shape the biological AI of the future. Learn more here to contribute: norn.group/impetus-grants…
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@martinvars Amgen launched the first kras inhibitor in 2021 (Lumakras), Mirati launched theirs on 2022 (Krazati). To my knowledge this is not the first KRAS inhibitor. Maybe you mean this is first one for the variant that is found in pancreatic cancer.
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Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky@martinvars·
Revolution Medicines: daraxonrasib, a daily pill targeting KRAS, nearly doubled survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer. 13.2 months vs 6.7 on chemo, 60% reduction in death risk. KRAS was called undruggable for decades. A small Redwood City biotech just proved everyone wrong.
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The Receipts UK ♿
The Receipts UK ♿@david_hollas·
Oxford University has done the maths on "drill baby drill" vs a fully renewable UK. Maximum North Sea extraction: saves households £16–£82/year. But ONLY if the government takes every penny of tax revenue and hands it back to households. If they don't, zero benefit. Full renewables: saves households up to £441/year. Recurring. Every year. Indefinitely. The North Sea runs out around 2040. Renewables don't. The analysis was done using January 2026 prices — before the Iran war sent oil to $116 a barrel. Even with cheap fossil fuels as the baseline, renewables win. This isn't ideology. It's arithmetic. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. March 2026.
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Just a reminder. Killing cancer cells in a lab is very easy. Almost anything will kill cells. Even water (because of osmotic damage). Inside our bodies killing cancer cells is extremely hard for many reasons so things that kill cancer cells in labs won’t usually become useful drugs. Some of the reasons: 1. Things that kill cancer cells also kill healthy cells - not a drug 2. Things that kill cancer cells in culture may not be able to kill at a rate at which the cancer is growing 3. The thing that kills cancer in a lab may not get to the tumour (may get deactivated by an enzyme in blood or be removed by liver or kidney). 4. The two dimensional structure of cell culture may not represent rhe 3D structure of tumour or its micro environment which stops things from getting to the cells. So if you fine doctors and scientists are not immediately excited by such news, these are some of the reasons.
Alfred 🏄🏻‍♀️🌊@HealthyAlfred

Mastic gum KILLED cancer cells in a lab. And left the healthy cells completely untouched. Not radiation. Not chemo. A tree resin. Published. Peer-reviewed. Colon cancer — dead. Pancreatic cancer — dead. Prostate cancer — dead. Oral cancer — dead. Leukemia — dead. Normal cells sitting right next to them? Unharmed. The resin was SELECTIVE. It triggered programmed cell death ONLY in cancerous cells. Healthy tissue left alone. Chemo can’t do that. It destroys everything. That’s why your hair falls out. That’s why your immune system collapses. Chemo carpet bombs. This tree resin selected its targets. Most of this data is in vitro — cells in a dish, not a human body. But one study went further. Live mice with colorectal tumors. Mastic gum extract suppressed tumor growth by 35%. Not in a dish. In a living body. In another study it POTENTIATED gemcitabine — a standard pancreatic cancer drug — making it significantly more effective while blocking the inflammatory pathway cancers use to survive treatment. Not a cure. Not a replacement for treatment. But the data exists and nobody talks about it. H. pylori is linked to up to 90% of stomach cancers. Mastic gum kills H. pylori. Mastic gum also kills cancer cells directly. Two mechanisms. One tree resin. $30 a month. The cancer industry doesn’t sell prevention. It sells treatment. Think about why. Everything you need below ↓

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Christina Farr
Christina Farr@chrissyfarr·
Your high school senior is deciding between medical school, law school or an MBA - but worried about the lack of jobs in the coming decades due to AI. Which are you most supportive of?
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