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Study found that generic mRNA vaccine prompted anti-cancer reaction in immune system.University of Florida researchers have stumbled upon a discovery they say could lead to development of a universal vaccine that can jumpstart the immune system to fight cancer.
A study, published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, showed that an experimental mRNA vaccine boosted resistance to tumors when paired with common anticancer drugs in mice.
If the same effect occurs in humans, it could provide an alternative to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. It could also mean much earlier treatment for patients in cases where the cancer has either evaded detection by the bodys immune system or has exhausted the bodys ability to fight it.
The vaccine is now being trialed in human patients. It could be commercialized as universal cancer vaccines to ratchet up the immune systems response to a tumor, said UF Health pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2025/07/18/uf-researchers-say-discovery-could-pave-way-universal-cancer-vaccine/
So...naturally the Trump administration is slashing funding for this type of research...

Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Trump hates saving American lives.
Zorro
(17,694 posts)Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Hornedfrog2000
(375 posts)Let kids start working more, and longer hours, cut off retirement, let us die off after about 60 when we can no longer work in factories.
Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Only those who make the rich richer will be fed
sop
(15,221 posts)They'll probably lobby (bribe) Trump to keep this from becoming reality.
Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Response to sop (Reply #5)
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Hornedfrog2000
(375 posts)Mexico, or other shit hole countries to get this vaccine.
Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Certainly cheaper too.
Hornedfrog2000
(375 posts)The surgeon, and anisanesthesiologist were both trained in the united states. I suspect that will mean nothing soon, though.
Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)Paladin
(31,071 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,800 posts)hates big pharma.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,163 posts)Orrex
(65,561 posts)I overheard such a conversation at a church where I worked during lockdown, and at that same church a few months ago I heard the same discussion. Its an article of faith for them.
orangecrush
(25,707 posts)travelingthrulife
(2,886 posts)Scientists were practically screaming that mRNA could lead to a vaccine for all sorts of diseases. Florida tried to kill mRNA research.
OrlandoDem2
(3,010 posts)Old Crank
(5,930 posts)That would be about right. People would have to leave certain states to get medical care.
to everyone who responded to this thread.
WE are finally all getting it. Trump, Kennedy and Project 25 want to kill as many Americans as possible.
Just like Noem culled her pup because he she thought he had become a liability instead of an asset..
There is a word for this kind of thinking. What is that word???????
Oh yeah.....EVIL!!
Picaro
(2,106 posts)So funding research involving mRNA is being slashed.
I think Idaho has passed a law prohibiting mRNA in some way.
We are currently ruled by the equivalent of medieval uneducated villagers.
The medical researchers doing this kind of work will just leave and go to other countries.
The US will fall behind. Just like Vlad wants.
Heckuva job Trump.
ToxMarz
(2,500 posts)How will the repukes gerrymander around this demographic swing.