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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...
Why GLP-1 Drugs Work Like Magic for Some — and Barely Work at All for Others
Posted on 26 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
The GLP-1 drugs — semaglutide, tirzepatide, and their pharmaceutical cousins — have been called transformative. Clinical trials show that most people taking them lose an average of 25% of their body weight. Real-world results follow a similar arc. But 10 to 15% of users see minimal or no weight loss at all.
Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist at the University of Toronto whose research contributed to the development of these medications, describes the situation plainly: “There is...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 21 October.
- US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
- Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
- Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
- 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
- Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
- Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
- Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
- During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
- Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
- Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
- Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
- JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
- Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
- Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
- Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
- 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
- Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
- Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.