Hello, and welcome back to join us for a fairly light edition of The Kable today.
A new VC firm has been launched to "digitise life sciences". Launched by alumni from other VCs, the new US-based firm, Dimension, aims toĀ start and back young biotech firmsĀ at the "interface of technology and the life sciences" to "transform the trajectory of life on earth" itself, no less. We're surprised they didn't call their firm Bombastic Ventures.
Elsewhere, Merck, who was looking to extend its Keytruda into prostate cancer, had toĀ halt a study well ahead of timeĀ after an interim analysis. Fortunately for the company, a separate study evaluatingĀ Keytruda in biliary tract cancerĀ had positive data to share.
TheĀ US FDA is joining hands with the WHOĀ and others investigating the origins of tainted cough syrups responsible for child deaths in The Gambia, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan.
The death toll from Malawi's ongoing cholera outbreak hasĀ now crossed 1,000Ā even as the health minister asks people to avoid beating up health workers.
"Free speech absolutist" Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and a subsequent withdrawal of policies against Covid misinformation has led to a massive spike in the #diedsuddenly conspiracy theory on the platform. This theory, that blames all manners of deaths on Covid vaccines, is not something we're linking to but a report on it can be foundĀ here.
And finally, elsewhere on Twitter, the dark humour continues unabated.
