By Julie Steenhuysen June 06, 2023 CHICAGO (Reuters) – Adding an experimental mRNA-based vaccine from Moderna Inc and Merck & Co reduced the risk that the most deadly skin cancer would spread by 65% over treatment with an immunotherapy alone in a mid-stage trial, the companies reported on Monday. With this and earlier data, Moderna is considering...
Tag: <span>Cancer vaccines</span>
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Transforming the way cancer vaccines are designed and made
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Scientists develop new design principles to improve vaccine structure and therapeutic outcomes for seven different types of cancer Breakthrough vaccine design principles double the number of T cells targeting cancer cells Blueprint established for redeveloping all vaccines – including those for infectious diseases like COVID-19 EVANSTON, Ill. — A new way to significantly...
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Biologists identify new targets for cancer vaccines
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MA — Over the past decade, scientists have been exploring vaccination as a way to help fight cancer. These experimental cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate the body’s own immune system to destroy a tumor, by injecting fragments of cancer proteins found on the tumor. So far, none of these...
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Artificial Intelligence is making cancer vaccines closer to reality
Imagine if you could get vaccinated for cancer. You would just get a shot or a couple of shots and your immune system would learn how to recognize and kill cancer. This sci-fi-sounding idea is not that far from reality. Especially now that scientists at the University of Waterloo have employed machine learning to identify...
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How sequencing virus DNA could open the door to next generation of cancer vaccines
by Daniel Brewer, The Conversation Cervical cancer is one of the only cancers that can be prevented by a vaccine. This is because around 98% of all cervical cancer cases are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), which implants DNA in the genome of human cells, causing them to become cancerous. The HPV vaccine can...
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Cancer Vaccines
When I think of vaccines, I think of the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella and varicella) vaccines which help our bodies establish immunity against diseases that used to kill. Now, there are vaccines being created for cancer. The rise of cancer vaccines According to Dr. Nora Disis, an oncologist and researcher in cancer vaccines at the...
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Researchers artificially generate immune cells integral to creating cancer vaccines
Study also identifies a flaw in a current cancer therapy in clinical trials THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (New York, NY – August 14, 2018)– For the first time, Mount Sinai researchers have identified a way to make large numbers of immune cells that can help prevent cancer reoccurrence, according to a...
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Cancer vaccines need to target T cells that can persist in the long fight against cancer
Cancer vaccines may need to better target T cells that can hold up to the long fight against cancer, scientists report. Pictured is Dr. Yukai He. Cancer vaccines may need to better target T cells that can hold up to the long fight against cancer, scientists report. Studies of two T cell types that...
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Cancer vaccines help patients get tumor-free in 2 studies
Cancer vaccines — which are intended to help patients fight cancer by enlisting the individuals’ own immune systems to attack cancer cells —showed promise in two small new studies. In both studies, researchers used experimental cancer vaccines to treat patients who had the deadly skin cancer melanoma . And in both studies, tumors completely disappeared...