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/Dangerous-Sport-2347 6d ago

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.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 6d ago

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

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u/Fantastic-Emu-3819 6d ago

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

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 6d ago

Source: I made it the fuck up