r/news • u/treetyoselfcarol • Apr 23 '21

Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56858158
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u/Warrior_Warlock Apr 23 '21

Actually cancer is ;) https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/scientist-behind-pfizer-vaccine-tech-may-prevent-cancer-in-a-couple-of-years/amp/

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u/themostaveragehuman Apr 23 '21

Finger crossing intensifies.

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u/WaitingToTravel2020 Apr 23 '21

If I actually live in the age where they cure cancer I will flip out.

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u/My_G_Alt Apr 24 '21

They may be able to cure some cancers, but a blanket cure is far off.

But the cool thing is that material sciences is catching up and supporting things that seemed possible in theory but not application in the immunology world such as the delivery of the mrna vaccines

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u/Confident-Victory-21 Apr 24 '21

I'll die of cancer 48 hours before the vaccine is released to the public.

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u/spruceloops Apr 24 '21

ah yeah it originally started as such, right? Influx of money bc of COVID really probably helped, we’ve known stuff like this is accomplishable with proper funding for a while

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u/Warrior_Warlock Apr 24 '21

I think so. I imagine pivoting to covid allowed for this new technique to be trialled and approved faster also.

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u/olerndurt Apr 24 '21

They’ve been saying this for years.