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Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup

TL;DR

Paul Conyngham, who says he used ChatGPT, Grok and other AI tools to design a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog, has founded a startup called Gamgee. The company advertises personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs and says it will apply AI and genetics to treatments across diseases and species, humans included. Conyngham's dog Rosie sits at the center of the founding story. None of the medical claims or the effectiveness of the approach has been independently verified.

Nauti's Take

The case shows a real opening: AI assisted literature work lowers the barrier to biomedical questions considerably, and a single anecdote has at least become a funded company. The catch is evidence, since neither efficacy nor the regulatory path has been independently established.

Anyone testing similar workflows should validate reproducible results with qualified experts and never derive treatment decisions from chatbot output.

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