Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic(news.mit.edu)

49 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 10 comments

Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits(rockefeller.edu)

35 points by marc__1 2 years ago | 43 comments

T cells can activate themselves to fight tumors(today.ucsd.edu)

114 points by gmays 3 years ago | 11 comments

New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers(science.org)

83 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 24 comments

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research(eurekalert.org)

178 points by beefman 3 years ago | 27 comments

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants(broadinstitute.org)

147 points by luu 16 days ago | 39 comments

Broad Institute news article announcing that a clinical trial of an siRNA drug candidate targeting the prion protein has begun enrolling human participants.

New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times(economist.com)

413 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 143 comments

Economist article reporting that a promising pancreatic cancer drug may be the first of a new class of treatments targeting a cancer master switch.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought(freethink.com)

324 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 162 comments

Freethink article reporting that Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine significantly boosts a standard melanoma treatment's effectiveness.

Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates(nejm.org)

71 points by RickJWagner 17 days ago | 39 comments

A New England Journal of Medicine study page on exercise and cancer survival, blocked here by a Cloudflare security verification screen.

Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)

4 points by gumby 24 days ago | 2 comments

New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.