Importantly, this Medical News report underscores that sST2 demonstrated exceptional predictive performance. Statistical analysis revealed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.944, indicating high accuracy in identifying children at risk of severe complications.
I have no faith whatsoever in Jillian Segal now, in the future, or the past. She’ll do major damage to social cohesion while she remains in that position. A terrible appointment
As the youngest Duggan kids waited for the school bus this morning on the last day of term, it echoed the waiting they’ve been doing the last 3 years since their Dad was taken. They've also been waiting on news of the next Federal Court hearing with the decision from the October 2025 court date.
The Duggans are facing their 4th Easter and another school holidays without Dan.
While they wait, the family are putting together the fees for the lawyers and associated travel costs for the trip to Canberra.
Please if you can this Easter, support the Duggans in any way: https://t.co/qyogQjnOR8
📢Big update on Novavax / Nuvaxovid availability for the UK!
As reported by @ThePharmaLetter, @SanofiUK will be supplying 600k doses of Nuvaxovid for the UK’s spring 2026 vaccination program. This will be the first availability in the UK since early 2024.
Every time you get a cancer biopsy, the lab makes a tissue slide that costs about $5. It shows the shape of your cells under a microscope, and every cancer patient already has one on file.
There’s a much fancier version of that test called multiplex immunofluorescence (basically a protein-level map showing which immune cells are near your tumor and what they’re doing). It costs thousands of dollars per sample, takes specialized equipment most hospitals don’t have, and barely scales. But it’s the kind of data oncologists need to figure out whether immunotherapy will actually work for you. Right now, only about 20 to 40% of cancer patients respond to immunotherapy, and one of the biggest reasons is that doctors can’t easily tell whether a tumor is “hot” (immune cells actively fighting it) or “cold” (immune system ignoring it).
Microsoft, Providence Health, and the University of Washington trained an AI to analyze the $5 slide and predict what the expensive test would show across 21 different protein markers. They called it GigaTIME, trained it on 40 million cells in which both the cheap slide and the expensive test coexisted, and then turned it loose on 14,256 real cancer patients across 51 hospitals in 7 US states.
The results landed in Cell, one of the most selective journals in biology. The model generated about 300,000 virtual protein maps covering 24 cancer types and 306 subtypes. It found 1,234 real, verified connections between immune cell behavior, genetic mutations, tumor staging, and patient survival that were previously invisible at this scale. When they tested it against a completely separate database of 10,200 cancer patients, the results matched up almost perfectly (0.88 out of 1.0 agreement).
Nature Methods named spatial proteomics (mapping where specific proteins sit inside your tissue) its Method of the Year in 2024, and specifically cited GigaTIME in a March 2026 update as a model that “democratizes” this kind of analysis. The full model is open-source on Hugging Face. Any cancer research lab with archived biopsy slides, and most of them have thousands, can now run virtual immune profiling without buying a single piece of new equipment.
Laura Tingle encapsulates the issues engulfing the Herzog visit.
An ill conceived provocation that can only fuel anti-semitism here especially as @smh and the @australian today quote Herzog supporting Netanyahu’s UN condemned cruelty. https://t.co/A2VL1p3F84
@smh@FinancialReview@abcnews need to update your coverage of the slaughter. This & other videos clearly show US Government is lying but you're reporting without stating the truth. Remember the thing about journalism being sticking your head outside to see if it's raining?
@deepcutnews@smh Today @theage published an apology (in page 2 of the print edition) for publishing it. I’d like to know what they apologising for? Is The Age suggesting there should be no Muslim - Jewish solidarity?
@deepcutnews@smh This is a beautiful piece of humanity expressed sensitively …completely disgusting that the @smh took it down after protest from a right wing vested interest group.