Day: December 17, 2025

Chinese scientists have turned allergy into a powerful weapon against cancer to deliver drugs and turbocharge the body’s own immune attack on cancer. The team loaded mast cells – which cause allergic symptoms when they encounter antigens such as seafood and pollen – with anticancer drugs to deliver them into tumours. The researchers said they were working to swiftly transition the method to clinical application, including by exploring its potential combination with existing cancer immunotherapies. 04:03 China-Singapore team’s nanovaccine suppresses cancer recurrence and spread in animal tests China-Singapore team’s nanovaccine…

The Taiwanese government has sparked fresh controversy by refusing to enforce amendments passed by the opposition-controlled legislature about local government funding. The move risks deepening a political stand-off and has drawn criticism that the island’s leader William Lai Ching-te was “bypassing the legislature when you can’t win”. The dispute centres on revisions to a law about how the central government distributes revenue to local authorities. Advertisement Observers said the clash had escalated well beyond that issue, exposing unresolved constitutional fault lines and paralysing relations between the executive and legislature. They…