A personalized mRNA Vaccine provides 'real hope' for melanoma patients
In a major development in cancer research, scientists started testing the world's first tailored mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma. This revolutionary strategy has enormous promise in the fight against cancer, providing new hope to both patients and researchers. Understanding the mRNA vaccine: Read More...
Phase 1 clinical trials for mRNA HIV vaccine have officially started
Just over a year ago, we shared an article about how Moderna is using mRNA technology to develop an HIV vaccine. Last week, the Phase I clinical trials for this very vaccine began. The company is conducting the trial in partnership with the nonprofit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Read More...
New mRNA flu vaccine shows success in clinical trials
When the common cold returns each year, so does the rise in flu cases. For younger, healthy people, all this means is the sniffles and a day in bed, but as we get older or develop other health conditions, these seasonal diseases can have a more dramatic, sometimes deadly impact on our Read More...
The Optimist View: Chaos as a catalyst for breakthroughs in medicine
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust BY: Amelia Buckley Among other threadbare patches in the social fabric, the pandemic has exposed the shortfalls in public health funding that have plagued many countries for years. Read More...