capsicum_fondler t1_iw7onjt wrote
Reply to comment by iNstein in Experimental Cancer Vaccine Yields Promising Results: NIH Finds Significant Tumor Regression by Shelfrock77
To add to this...
The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines use the genetic code for the spike protein on the outside of the virus.
Afaik, for a cancer vaccine you check what proteins are uniquely present on the surface of cancer cells, and then illicit an immune respone for that protein using an mRNA vaccine.
Basically the same logic. However, the difficulty with cancer vaccines is deciding which protein to target, not to mention the diversity of types of cancer.
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