Stage-4 cancer patient gets free help from ~20 strangers on X, including AI tumor RNA analysis
prasanna_says · x · 2026-11-11
A stage-4 cancer patient posted that he expected to fight cancer alone — but since mid-October, 20 strangers on X have stepped up for free: an NYU Langone lab offered to run his tumor data to sharpen vaccine targets, a University of Michigan lab offered to test drugs on his actual tumor cells, a biotech ran AI analysis on his tumor RNA, and a vaccine company offered to design a second vaccine to validate the first. "We have AI. We have the internet. We have each other." The reposter calls it heartening.
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