mRNA vaccine stops pancreatic cancer, study finds - eviltoast
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    In 8 of 16 patients studied, the vaccines activated T cells that recognize the patient’s own pancreatic cancers. These patients also showed delayed recurrence of their pancreatic cancers, suggesting the T cells activated by the vaccines may be having the desired effect to keep pancreatic cancers in check.

    Good news, but the headline lacks nuance.

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    mRNA? Oh boy the anti vaxxers are going have have their heads explode.

    Great news though as that’s a pretty common cancer.

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    mRNA is going to go down in history as the most important medical breakthrough ever. It seems to not have limits

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      Not all of them, but the most successful from Biontech/Pfizer and moderna are both mRNA based. However there were also others based on protein subunits or viral vectors for example.

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          If your question is whether crispr gene editing was used by any of the vaccines, then no none of them used it as a direct mechanism.

          However it might have been used somewhere along the line in their creation, e.g. to knock out a gene in the viral vectors. But i couldn’t tell you that with certainty.

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              Yeah, the possibilities are definitely exciting. But i guess as far as Covid19 vaccines are concerned it was probably a good thing that none required their direct use. As is we already had a ton of missinformation and fearmongering, i don’t even want to imagine how bad it would have been, if gene editing was involved in any direct way.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      Yes, mRNA was a huge breakthrough developed by the massive r&d rush from covid vaccine funding. Now we reap it’s benefits as it has a huge amount of applications on a lot of other things too.