Biontech is planning cancer vaccines before 2030::undefined

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Right? Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level and to think there would be a vaccine against “cellular mutation” as a broad topic would be asinine. Especially since a lot of those mutations are from environmental exposure.

    I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

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      11 months ago

      But cancers aren’t generally random mutations; they’re specific mutations to specific genes (oncogenes) that tend to be associated with cell replication and planned cell death.

      So it actually does make sense that you can target cancer mutations, since you’re looking at a fairly small set of mutations (about 300, I think.) In any case, the body destroying its own pre-cancerous cells is an important mechanism for day-to-day cancer prevention that’s already working in people, so it makes sense to try to strengthen and broaden the response.

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      11 months ago

      Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level

      I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

      One imagines there are many cure/treatment/vaccines because there are many different cancers

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        11 months ago

        Yet they all scream “we have found a cure for cancer!” As if they have found one for all of them.

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          11 months ago

          They have literally found a cure for cancer. This is one application.