Today, we talk more about Merck and Moderna’s potentially field-changing cancer vaccine, see a couple FDA approvals, and learn more about the new FDA commissioner nominee. Plus, brain organoids have stayed alive — and continue to mature — in a Harvard lab for five years.

I wonder, actually, about the poor little brain organoids in Megan’s story. Just pulsing in their Petri dishes, contemplating moral relativity or migraines. It’s all very Robin Cook.