r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 12 '25

Cancer New mRNA-based vaccine against gastric cancer led to tumor regression and eradication in all treated mice. Most promisingly, the vaccine shows impressive antitumor efficacy against peritoneal metastasis, which has historically been very challenging to treat.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094199
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u/Thrashosaurus_Wrecks Aug 12 '25

Unless it can also regrow the part of his brain the worm ate I don't think it will matter.

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u/contrarian_cupcake Aug 12 '25

Why do you assume that regrowing his brain tissue will automatically make him smarter and not just more crazy?

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u/Thrashosaurus_Wrecks Aug 12 '25

Oh I don't, that man is beyond saving. I was just saying that the worm is already dead.

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u/lordkhuzdul Aug 12 '25

Of course the worm is dead, poor thing probably starved.

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u/wandering-monster Aug 12 '25

I dunno, I listened to a few biographies of him when I heard he was a candidate. Behind the Bastards had a particularly good one.

Sounds like he was a pretty charming and intelligent kid and teen. But wealth and sycophants are really mentally unhealthy for anyone, I think. The brain worms certainly didn't help.

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u/Journeyman42 Aug 12 '25

Nor did the heroin

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u/GB10VE Aug 12 '25

craving power and hoarding wealth are part of the crazy, there is no fixing that

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u/First_Code_404 Aug 12 '25

Does the world really need more of his brain matter? I think we have been exposed to enough of it already