Cancer

Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer

"If we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?"

Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2026 3:40 PM

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The happy saga of Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie is all over the internet. Conyngham's 8-year-old rescue dog, Rosie, was diagnosed with a fatal skin cancer. Instead of accepting Rosie's allegedly inevitable demise, Conyngham turned to artificial intelligence (both ChatGPT and Grok) to see if he could figure out how to create a personalized anti-cancer vaccine.

Conyngham reached out to Martin Smith, the director of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Ramaciotti Centre for........

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