The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 research projects it funded, despite a ruling declaring them illegal.
Current medical guidelines have us screening for only five cancers, and one at a time. A new test, from a startup called Grail, has identified fifty cancers, with a remarkably low rate of false positives.
It's a sobering development for the 82-year-old who, nearly a decade ago, spearheaded the Cancer Moonshot initiative aimed at accelerating cancer research and improving treatments.