Cancer vaccines aren’t what you usually have with vaccines. It’s not to prevent you from getting cancer. Instead you give the immune system a target to attack, as the main issue with cancer is, that your immune system can’t fight/see it due to evasion mechanisms.
Hmm, i missed that Part. On second read it’s only opt in. I still thought they would do better, especially since they said all of their AI features would be privacy focused
Can’t we just make this opt in??? I guess that’s the reason we don’t get Siri AI in the EU for now
Sony Ericsson k700i… what a Phone. And my iPhone 4. Had that thing for nearly 7 years
You know, I just had a great idea how to dissipate that heat in space. we can use tungsten rods and heat them up, and when they’re too hot and don’t cool down anymore, we just drop them down to earth and should they happen to hit something in China or Russia that’s just a bonus
/S obviously
While you’re probably right, I wonder if we would’ve said the same thing about GPS
As far as I understood, I always thought that they just used other people’s rockets to piggyback their own satellites to space basically for free
For Starlink and SpaceX, I can probably understand the business model, considering the race to getting more satellites to orbit be it for surveying or in case of Starlink stable Internet anywhere. But anything beyond that, like data centers in space I just ridiculous. No way that their valuation is anywhere near what it is realistically.
While you are right in principle, what you are quoting is exactly what I was talking about. The cancer that was introduced to those mice was known beforehand and the vaccine adapted to it. Similar treatments have been available for melanoma for a few years. It’s actually insane considering how much of a death sentence skin cancer was when I was in med school 12 years ago.
However this is a case of similar antigens in different cancers. This is sadly not the norm. While this might have some effect in this very controlled experiment, a general vaccine is unlikely. We might be able to get immunization for specific cancer subtypes, what is nor likely though, is that we do molecular testing on a tumor and then apply targeted therapy as a vaccine.
We have a molecular tumor conference at our university where we apply exactly these principles. It’s a very exciting time and I see my future as a oncological surgeon somewhat endangered, however this type of treatment will still need decades to be brought to mainstream and most likely be extremely expensive in the beginning
Edit: I reread the whole article after my reply, it was not a case of cross tumor antigens, it was two different vehicles for different cancers, one melanoma, one colonic cancer. So no vaccine in the typical sense