The idea of cancer vaccines is not a new one because it's a disease and we've had vaccines for over 100 years. The immune system and cancer didn't seem to interact the way the immune system works with other diseases. What's new here isn't the idea of a cancer vaccine, what's new is that we have mRNA technology that we can apply to a cancer vaccine.
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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