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A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Just Passed a Phase III Trial — Here’s What It Means
1 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For decades, the idea of a vaccine that trains...
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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...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 1 September.
- Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59) dies (birth date unknown)
- Jacques Cartier French explorer dies (birth date unknown)
- Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
- Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
- California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
- 1st pullman sleeping car in service
- R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
- RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
- Sherman's march through Georgia
- Napoleon III captured at Sedan
- 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
- 1st baseball tripleheader - Boston vs Pittsburgh
- Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
- Jack Combs pitches 24 inninings beating Red Sox
- M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
- Martha last known passenger pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo
- US troops land in Vladivostok Siberia stay until 1920
- Earthquake struck Tokyo estimated 74 000 people died
- PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes."
- Germany invades Poland starting WW II
- 1st network dective series - Private Eyes premeirs
- Sutro Baths SF purchased by George Whitney
- Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris
- Libyan revolution (National Day)
- NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
- 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
- Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn discovers new moon rings
- Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died
- Titanic sunk in 1912 found by French & American scientists