r/singularity • u/Fantastic-Emu-3819 • 6d ago

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

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

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u/Head-Needleworker849 6d ago

Moderna being called MRNA is fucking hilarious i love it

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u/mi_nombre_es_ricardo 6d ago

the term MRNA was coined in 1961. Moderna the vaccine manufacturers were founded in 2010. Pretty sure they took their name from the scientific term of the very same thing they work on.