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A new pill helps people with hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer live longer

A new medicine called daraxonrasib helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer than standard chemotherapy. In a trial of 500 patients whose cancer had already come back, the drug beat chemotherapy on how long people lived and how long the cancer stayed in check.

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The world may once have had tens of thousands of languages

Researchers estimate that 3,000 to 1,000 years ago the world had far more languages than today — perhaps tens of thousands, compared with about 7,500 now. They mixed language records, population history, and computer models to trace how many languages existed over time.

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    A new drug pair beats chemotherapy for people with bladder cancer

    For muscle-invasive bladder cancer, two immune-related drugs given before and after surgery worked better than standard chemotherapy. After 2 years, 86.9% of people on the new drugs were alive, versus 81.3% on chemotherapy.

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    How poison frogs may turn their food into skin poison

    Poison frogs do not make their own toxins. They eat toxic insects and store the poison in their skin. Scientists found extra copies of certain genes, plus genes switched on more strongly, that may help move the poison safely through the body.

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    Many AI models wear a 'free to use' label that their training data never granted

    Researchers traced over 232,000 chains from datasets to AI models to apps. In 62% of chains, at least one step had no real license, yet a clear 'free to use' label appeared downstream anyway.

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    As the human brain ages, its immune cells get swapped out for new ones

    Scientists studied the aging human hippocampus, a brain area key for memory. They found that between ages 50 and 75, the brain's original immune cells are lost and replaced by cells that resemble ones from the blood.

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