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A team of Harvard bioengineers and biologists say that they have developed a cancer vaccine that eradicates melanoma tumors in mice and slows their reoccurrence.
The method detailed in the study, published last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, used a miniscule plastic disk implant carrying the vaccine to recognize and eliminate tumor cells.
The new vaccine specifically attacks cancerous cells, avoiding the collateral damage on healthy cells that other cancer treatments often cause. This approach may also build long-term resistance within the immune system, the researchers said.
Ali said that the new vaccine protects against the recurrence of melanoma, though the data supporting this claim remains unpublished.
Though this cancer vaccine is limited to use in mice, researchers at InCytu, Inc.—the company that owns the license for the rights of the vaccine—are looking to extend research to test the vaccine on other types of cancer and expand to human clinical...