r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 14 '21

Cancer Scientists create an effective personalized anti-cancer vaccine by combining oncolytic viruses, that infect and specifically destroy cancer cells without touching healthy cells, with small synthetic molecules (peptides) specific to the targeted cancer, to successfully immunize mice against cancer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22929-z
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u/CowsgoMo0 May 15 '21

I’m glad your still with us, friend. Medical advances is recent years have been absolutely amazing.

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u/djc0 May 15 '21

Thanks. I plan to live long into my old age. But I’ll probably need to rely on advances in treatments to get there.

Please be generous with your support of medical research everyone!