Tech entrepreneur Paul Cunningham from Sydney — with no biomedical education but 17 years of machine learning experience — used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and custom mRNA technology to create a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie. Tumor DNA sequencing cost $3,000. The entire process took two months. The tumor shrank by 75%.
The story made it to The Australian — and according to UNSW scientists, this is the world's first personalized anti-cancer vaccine developed for a dog. One professor later wrote: "If this worked for a dog — why aren't we doing the same for people?"