But Donald Trump's most impactful move could be to spearhead the world's first cancer vaccine.
By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
He's promised to put Americans on Mars and end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
But Donald Trump's most impactful move could be to spearhead the world's first cancer vaccine.
This week, amid a flurry of executive orders, the new president announced a $500billion venture he described as the 'largest AI infrastructure project in history.'
The White House says Project Stargate will create tens of thousands of new jobs and usher in a new technological revolution.
But its biggest promise is finally producing cures for cancer, according to one of the AI bosses involved with the program.
Larry Ellison, chief technology officer at computer software company Oracle, said the technology could use simple blood tests to scan for tiny tumor cells, which neither humans nor current lab tests can detect.
This way, patients with the earliest forms of the disease could be identified and treated before the cancer spreads.
He continued: 'Then beyond that, once we gene sequence that cancer tumor you can then vaccinate that person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer and you can make that mRNA vaccine robotically using AI in about 48 hours.'
He described curing cancers as 'the promise of the future.' Later in the press conference, Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI which created ChatGPT, said AI will lead to the cure of diseases 'at an unprecedented rate.'
Larry Ellison, chief technology officer at computer software company Oracle, spoke about his company's potential cancer vaccine Tuesday at a White House gathering with President Donald Trump
Mr. Ellison said a potential personalized cancer vaccine is 'the promise of AI and the promise of the future'
Altman said: 'We will be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease and what this will do for the ability to deliver very high quality healthcare... to cure the diseases at a rapid rapid rate.
'I think [this technology] will be among the most important things.'
Similar experimental mRNA cancer vaccines have been in development since the technology was advanced during the Covid pandemic.
mRNA vaccines were thrust into the public sphere when Trump established Operation Warp Speed, a campaign to facilitate and accelerate the development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.
Trump faced anger from his base over his involvement in the mRNA Covid vaccines, which his administration bankrolled, and many Republicans and Trump supporters were resistant to the shots.
In mRNA cancer vaccines, scientists take a sample from a cancer patient's tumor and analyze its genetic code - every tumor is genetically different, which means no two cancer vaccines are the same.
They then use part of this, called RNA, to develop a bespoke vaccine for the patient in a lab. When injected, the shot will deliver the instructions for the body's cells to produce a harmless part of the tumor, provoking a response from the immune system.
This process trains the immune system to spot this element of the cancer in the future providing protection against the disease.
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