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1 week ago

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, the shot works by encasing adjuvants, which substances that increase or modulate the immune response to a vaccine, and melanoma peptide antigens, short amino acid sequences that can be recognized by the body, inside specialized lipid nanoparticles. In one experiment, the team found that 80 percent of vaccinated mice that had been exposed to melanoma cells three weeks earlier remained tumor-free for 250 days, the full duration of the study.
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6 months ago

Skin cancer patients could join vaccine project

A new needle-free cancer vaccine trial aims to significantly boost the immune response in patients with advanced melanoma.
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