Researchers translate a hypothesis into a personalized treatment for cancer
Dr. Franz Zemp, Ph.D., gets chills talking about how his idea to target a specific cancer cell has evolved.
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Vaccines: News and Research on Cancer Vaccines
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Biomaterial-delivered one-two punch boosts cancer immunotherapy
Cancer immunotherapy has brought major improvement in patient survival and quality of life, especially with the success of adoptive T cell and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies. Unfortunately, in contrast to different ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Vaccine boosts response of engineered T cells, may help eradicate solid tumors
Engineering T cells to destroy cancer cells has shown success in treating some types of cancer, such as leukemia and lymphoma. However, it hasn't worked as well for solid tumors.
Jul 5, 2023
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Putting the STING into cancer immunotherapy
Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have been revolutionary in the treatment of some cancer types, emerging as one of the most promising treatments for diseases such as melanoma, colon cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.
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Cancer vaccine trials could start in the autumn as UK signs deal with BioNTech
The U.K. government recently announced that it is partnering with German firm BioNTech to test vaccines for cancer and other diseases. The project aims to build on the mRNA vaccine technology that BioNTech became famous for ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumor regression in mice, report investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
Nov 10, 2022
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A potential therapeutic vaccine strategy for a subset of myeloproliferative neoplasms
The cells of a subset of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), slow-growing blood cancers, have frameshift mutations in their calreticulin (CALR) gene that are associated with the disease. The tail end of this gene's mutated ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Targeted cancer vaccines eliminate tumors and prevent recurrence in mice
Researchers around the world have been working for years on developing vaccines against different types of cancer, but without much success. Now, Tufts School of Engineering researchers think they have found one that does ...
Aug 16, 2022
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