semipotentwalrus
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Apr 17, 2024 19:06:33 GMT -5
Looks like scientists might have managed to find a way to make vaccines that work for a given virus regardless of what strain it is and that can also be safely used by very young children and people who are immunocompromised. news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strainsFrom what I gather from the article the method used is applicable to a wide variety of viruses as well, so it's not limited to just a few. If this pans out I'm smelling a Nobel prize because this is pretty phenomenal stuff. |
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Post by Haighus on Apr 18, 2024 3:29:49 GMT -5
Looks like scientists might have managed to find a way to make vaccines that work for a given virus regardless of what strain it is and that can also be safely used by very young children and people who are immunocompromised. news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strainsFrom what I gather from the article the method used is applicable to a wide variety of viruses as well, so it's not limited to just a few. If this pans out I'm smelling a Nobel prize because this is pretty phenomenal stuff. That does look promising. Hopefully it survives the jump from mouse models (few new medications do). I'd be very pleased if this works, especially if its a spray. I hate getting a 'flu jab every year. It may also work for diseases that have previously been very hard to create vaccines for. |
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Post by pacific on Apr 26, 2024 5:51:58 GMT -5
Reading about it I think this is another branch of research, but some really exciting developments for cancer treatment too. www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trialI had read previously that a number of the research groups that were working on this and similar moved onto Covid vaccine treatment when the epidemic struck - the work they had been doing was for cancer treatments and some of the researchers realised the mRNA technology could function as a Covid vaccine as well, but they are since moving back onto cancer treatment - I'm not sure if this is a direct result of that, but it's extremely heartening. |
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Post by Haighus on Apr 26, 2024 6:34:43 GMT -5
The cancer "vaccines" are promising. If they work for adjuvant therapy, I'd be very interested to see how they fair in palliative therapy. I work in the palliative setting so unlikely to see anything from this for awhile.
There isn't any reason the concept shouldn't work in other cancers too. However, skin cancers like melanoma are very responsive to immunotherapies so I suspect that is why they are trialing this first.
I do wish they wouldn't use brand names though- no one I work with refers to pembrolizumab as Keytruda (incidentally one of the most valuable drugs on the planet).
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semipotentwalrus
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Apr 26, 2024 20:57:09 GMT -5
Is that one of the dwarves that built the Chamber of Marzabul in Lord of the Rings? |
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Post by Haighus on Apr 27, 2024 9:38:56 GMT -5
Is that one of the dwarves that built the Chamber of Marzabul in Lord of the Rings? Ha! Its not even the worst name for an anti-cancer drug... |
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