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My mom's oncologist kept her on an old chemotherapy regimen even though FDA-approved targeted drugs existed for her cancer's mutations. Genetic testing is here. So why aren't we using it everywhere? Source: The New York Times, "New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don't More Patients Get Them?" (Sept. 30, 2026), as republished by GV Wire: https://gvwire.com/2026/10/01/new-cancer-drugs-are-revolutionary-why-dont-more-patients-get-them/ Images via Wikimedia Commons: Retired electrician (CC0); NIH Image Gallery (public domain). Should every cancer patient get a genetic test? Tell me below. Follow for more science that actually matters. #cancer #genetictesting #science #shorts

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A thylacine (the Tasmanian tiger) and a wolf have strikingly similar skull shapes despite coming from distant branches of the mammal tree. This is convergent evolution: similar pressures can produce similar solutions. Two unrelated gliders show the same principle. Lecture source: The Royal Institution, “The hidden rule behind all evolution | with biologist Anjali Goswami” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMjoNUb2A0I Opening scene is an AI artist's reconstruction (Google Veo), labeled on screen. Credits Thylacine film: Hobart Zoo footage, 1911 to 1933, public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacine_footage_compilation.ogv Flying squirrel: Pratikppf, CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and resized. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gliding_flying_squirrel.jpg Flying snake: Alan Couch, CC BY 2.0; resized. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysopelea_paradisi_(6032067972).jpg Thylacine: Harry Burrell, G.P. Whitley Papers, Australian Museum Archives, Public Domain Mark 1.0. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thylacinus_cynocephalus_at_Hobart_Zoo_1928.jpg Grey wolf: Bert de Tilly, CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and resized. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_wolf.jpg

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A new paper in Nature turns research papers into AI agents that act like a virtual corresponding author: you ask questions, and it answers from the paper's own data, code and methods. I love the idea, as long as it stays sandboxed to the paper so it can't hallucinate. Source: Miao et al., "Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents," Nature (2026): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y Image: bound journal volumes, SKopp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Would you ask a paper questions? Tell me below. Follow for more science that actually matters. #AI #science #research #shorts