‘Universal Cancer Vaccine’ Breakthrough Claimed by Scientists
1st June 2016
Writing in Nature, an international team of researchers described how they had taken pieces of cancer’s genetic RNA code, put them into tiny nanoparticles of fat and then injected the mixture into the bloodstreams of three patients in the advanced stages of the disease.
The patients’ immune systems responded by producing “killer” T-cells designed to attack cancer.
The vaccine was also found to be effective in fighting “aggressively growing” tumours in mice, according to researchers, who were led by Professor Ugur Sahin from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.
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