
71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?
Freakonomics, M.D.
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Cancer Vaccines
The body typically can't do this on its own, which is where immunotherapies come in. mRNA vaccines are one way to stimulate this immune response from T cells. So there's certain antigens that we see on certain cancers and we design an mRNA or DNA vaccine that encodes those particular antigens.
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