In pancreatic cancer patients, vaccines taught immune systems to recognize their own cancers in 50% of the cases. Scientists are calling this a penicillin moment in our war against cancer. Some families are leaving home states and moving to places like Vermont that they view as more hospitable. Vera's family moved out of Texas last year after Governor Greg Abbott directed state agencies to start defining gender affirming health care for transgender kids as child abuse.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran explains how he and his colleagues successfully treated pancreatic cancer with bespoke mRNA vaccines. Science journalist Charles Graeber says this could be cancer’s “penicillin moment.”
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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