Erica

Good morning, everybody.

I see Steven and Bookish.

Slap it on a skillet.

All right.

we can start out with some science apparently they've come up with a new rna nanotechnology to program living cells which is a new path for a cancer cure so it seems like these rna structures assemble inside cells like lego blocks and they uh target cancer by disabling some stem cells and oncogenes um so they have

designed these synthetic DNA templates for RNA to fold into precise shapes and looks like current therapies are targeting one molecule but this one is hitting multiple simultaneously so they're trying to disable these cancer stem cells so it looks like we're making progress on that front that's pretty good news and then they're also coming out with a blood test

they say can accurately detect 81 of the earliest lung cancers by looking for molecular chaos is what they say um so this is something where you could just get a blood test as opposed to like a biopsy or something to try and figure out if you have lung cancer and it's also something that might happen so that it would you know give you a better chance of of surviving it and um they also point out that it also is

highly specific the way they say it is 95 specificity which means it doesn't have everybody false positives and that's very important because you don't want to scare a whole bunch of people and have them think they have cancer and maybe then have them do a bunch of biopsies or other things that are not needed so it is highly specific so it means if it does tell you you have it you probably do

But it's about 81% of the cases would be detected.

It also apparently works about 68% of the time on early breast cancer.

So it looks like they're coming up with tests to make sure that we can find cancers.

Well, Scott would often say, you know, a lot of studies you can't replicate.

It's 50%, kind of a flip of a coin.

you know, I, I still applaud the progress.

I mean, I think as we all know, it was a big problem.

And if you can detect it earlier, you have a much better chance of either managing it or getting rid of it.

So, um, you know, I think it's progress and, um, I hope we can all cure cancer.

I mean, uh, I think both Trump and Biden had said they would cure cancer this decade.

So, um,

know i'm waiting for that to happen i don't know if that was a promise they made just because someone told them to say it which is probably what happened um but you know i certainly hope that we get there because it does seem like it takes a lot of people away that shouldn't should still be here so yeah that's true okay so uh apparently on the ai and robotics front