The Algorithm Passed Every Benchmark. The Patients Didn’t Notice.
A landmark Nature Medicine RCT found AI improved clinician decisions but not patient outcomes, exposing the fatal flaw in...
Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
The Mitochondrial Switch That Makes Drugs Different From Food
New Nature Neuroscience data shows MCU inhibition blocks drug reward without touching natural reward circuits, a mechanistic breakthrough for...
The 400-Member Protein Family That Neuroscience Has Almost Entirely Ignored
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery identifies SLC transporters as untapped CNS drug targets, but 97% remain undrugged, and trial designers...
In Vivo CAR-T for CNS Autoimmune Disease Looks Promising. The Trial Design Problem Is Hiding in Plain Sight.
NEJM's lentiviral in vivo CAR-T data in neurologic autoimmune disease is compelling, but the trial infrastructure to validate it...
Reading the COMPARE Phase 1 Data in Nature Medicine Closely
Nature Medicine's COMPARE phase 1 data on CD19 CAR T in refractory RA shows zero severe CRS in 6...
TALENTOP Proved Conversion Surgery Works in Advanced HCC. Now Comes the Harder Question.
TALENTOP's phase 3 data shows liver resection after atezo-bev nearly doubles time to treatment failure in advanced HCC. The...
The Oregon Dataset Is Larger Than the Entire History of Psychedelic Trials. So Why Are Regulators Still Looking the Other Way?
OHSU's 2,363-person Oregon psilocybin dataset dwarfs every RCT in the field's history. Here's what it tells us that clinical...
Dronabinol for PTSD Nightmares Is Promising, and the Dual Diagnosis Question Changes Everything
A Nature Medicine RCT shows dronabinol cuts PTSD nightmares. For the 46% of PTSD patients who also carry a...
Psilocybin Works in the Lab. Can It Survive the Clinic?
A UK NHS psilocybin trial exposes the standardization gap threatening psychedelic drug approval — therapist training, setting protocols, and...
iPSC Cardiomyocytes Reach the Beating Heart: What This Trial Design Tells Sponsors About the Next Frontier of Cell Therapy Protocols
A Nature Medicine RCT of allogeneic iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes in advanced ischemic heart failure just set the protocol bar for...