Moderna cancer vaccine results confirm efficacy; AI's lifecycle in drug development

anshulkundaje · x · 2026-08-20

Moderna and Merck's cancer vaccine confirmed Phase 2 results in a late-stage melanoma trial. The author discusses the lifecycle of AI in drug development, distinguishing between 'boring' legacy ML techniques embedded in diagnostics and the 'hypey' frontier areas like virtual cells.

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