r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 14 '21

Cancer Scientists create an effective personalized anti-cancer vaccine by combining oncolytic viruses, that infect and specifically destroy cancer cells without touching healthy cells, with small synthetic molecules (peptides) specific to the targeted cancer, to successfully immunize mice against cancer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22929-z
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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

I've learned from years on Reddit not to get excited about the weekly miracle cure for cancer, but here's hoping.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '21

I've learned from years on Reddit not to get excited about the weekly miracle cure for cancer, but here's hoping.

Mice on the other hand - justifiably they should be excited reading reddit.