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Vaccines to treat cancer? 

Published 4 July 2022 posted in Elsewhere

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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.

Cancers have ways to evade our immune systems, but a new type of personalised vaccine, developed specifically for each individual patient, could help eradicate even some tumours that are hard to treat with conventional therapies. 

Read more in the New Scientist.

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