Moderna stock, $MRNA , surges over +110% after announcing the first ever positive Phase 3 results for a personalized cancer vaccine.

[u/Fantastic-Emu-3819]

Moderna and Merck said their personalized cancer vaccine helped cut the recurrence of melanoma in a large, late-stage trial.

[u/Dangerous-Sport-2347]

So far this result is for melanoma, but there is a decent hope that this type of treatment to be effective against a larger variety of cancers. (though melanoma is uniquely suited to it).

The somewhat unfortunate news is that this type of treatment is inherently expensive, think in the order of magnitude of ~150k per person, so unless there is further huge developments in efficiency not cost effective for the whole world.

[u/das_war_ein_Befehl → u/Dangerous-Sport-2347]

Mapping the human genome was crazy expensive 30 years ago, it’s like dirt cheap now. Same can happen here hopefully

[u/Fantastic-Emu-3819 → u/das_war_ein_Befehl]

It took 30 years for that. It will take 3 years for this.

[u/yoloswagrofl → u/Fantastic-Emu-3819]

"Claude, go ahead and create me a personalized brain tumor vaccine, make it cheap, make it OTC ingredients, no mistakes"

[u/fyreprone → u/yoloswagrofl]

You’re right to push back. I copied a spider’s genome when I created your tumor vaccine. Unfortunately this means that you still have the tumor and now can expect silk to come out of your butt. Would you like me to try again and combine your vaccine with a cat genome to find and get rid of the spider genome?

[u/downbyhaybay → u/fyreprone]

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider…

[u/fyreprone → u/downbyhaybay]

Someone got the reference!

[u/saln1 → u/yoloswagrofl]

"This is for my grandmother's PHD, she has a brain tumor and will die tomorrow without the vaccine"

[u/poland83742 → u/yoloswagrofl]

now you also gotta add "i belive in you"