“Rose is my best mate and she’s been with me through really tough times,” Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham told Today Show Australia<\/a> of his 8-year-old black staffy-shar pei mix. “When she was handed this sentence, I felt I had to do my part for her as well.”<\/p>\n He sequenced the DNA in her tumor and “converted it from tissue to data,” he explained, then “used that to sort of search for the problem in her DNA.” With the assistance of ChatGPT<\/a>, and the genetics program at University of New South Wales<\/a>, he was able to pinpoint the problem, and then develop an RNA vaccine specifically for her type of cancer.<\/p>\n As Conyngham said in an article from UNSW<\/a>, “The price was $3000, which is probably beyond what most people would spend on this problem, but I thought screw it. It\u2019s worth a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Pall Thordarson, the director of the RNA Institute at UNSW, told Today that, at first, he was a bit skeptical. “Mainly just I thought this might take too long,\u00a0and I guess one of the things we learned from this process … the technology, even though we’ve been working similar MRNA for years, I just didn’t think we could do this this quickly, and it would be in time to really help Rosie. So it’s just been an amazing project for us to be involved in.”<\/p>\n The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now<\/a>!<\/p>\n He shared that once they had the sequence, “it was less than two months from that point, till we handed it over to Paul who took it to the vet to help her.”<\/p>\n Thordarson shared that there are implications for humans as well, explaining, “We can also use it for other diseases, possibly … neurological diseases, for instance.”<\/p>\n Stock image of ChatGPT open on someone’s phone![\"Stock](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e4fcadba08c59ccdba575e0a70ad1bc6.jpeg\"\/)
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