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solidshakego t1_ixivzm4 wrote

Reply to comment by Adorable-Ad-3223 in Nano-robot antibodies that fight cancer enter first human drug trial by rmuktader

If i recall this isn't "new tech" or anything. Has been studied and used for a while I think on lab rats and stuff. A bit hazey but I do remember reading about it a long time ago.

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wandering-monster t1_ixjnj3d wrote

That's generally going to be the case for anything entering human trials. You don't put brand new tech into people.

Eg. The mRNA tech used for the COVID vaccine was first discovered in like the 80s and got into serious development in the early 2000s as a cancer treatment.

It just happened to be ready to go, a good fit for the problem, and extremely successful in its early human trials for cancer. So we kinda quickly adopted it into a viral vaccine instead of a cancer vaccine.

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