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The Secret to Living Past 110? An Army of Cancer-Killing Immune Cells
Posted on 25 August, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
What if the key to extreme longevity isn’t slowing down ageing, but an immune system that keeps adapting? A study published in Cell Reports reveals that supercentenarians — people aged 110 and older — carry unusually large populations of a rare type of cancer-killing immune cell, offering a striking new perspective on how some individuals reach extraordinary ages while fending off heart disease, dementia and cancer.
Rethinking Immune Ageing
For decades, research on the ageing...
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A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Just Passed a Phase III Trial — Here’s What It Means
Posted on 1 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For decades, the idea of a vaccine that trains your immune system to fight your own tumour has been theoretically compelling and practically elusive. This week, that changed. Moderna and Merck announced that intismeran — a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine — reduced melanoma recurrence in a phase III clinical trial, marking the first time an mRNA-based cancer treatment has succeeded at this scale.
The result doesn’t just matter for melanoma. It’s a proof-of-concept moment with implications...
Immune Therapy Engineered Inside the Body Eases Multiple Sclerosis
Posted on 7 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For years, CAR-T-cell therapy has operated on a straightforward but labour-intensive logic: extract T cells from a patient, engineer them in a laboratory to target a specific molecule, and reinfuse them. It works. It has transformed outcomes in blood cancers. But it is slow, expensive, and operationally demanding in ways that limit who can access it and where.
A clinical trial published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine tests a different premise: what if the genetic...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 12 October.
- Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
- British & French troops capture Peking.
- General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63.
- Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
- NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series
- Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning
- Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
- John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail.
- Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
- Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
- 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
- Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
- US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
- At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
- Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel
- USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
- Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
- Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
- Soyuz 7 is launched
- Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
- Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
- Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
- Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
- 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
- Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.