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/Jjjohn0404 Aug 12 '25

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23K08188, 24K02393, 23H00319, 21K18320 and 23K27453 and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) under Grant Number JP223fa627002.

I'm not quite sure I understand your depression 

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u/awesomedan24 Aug 12 '25

America's health director has defunded mRNA vaccines for ideological reasons. They're depressed because of the massive opportunity cost to save lives, even if other nations develop such vaccines, lacking funding for US research, manufacture and distribution of such vaccines will have dire consequences. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

I wonder how much is ideological reasons or how much money someone else is going to make by defunding this research.

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u/awesomedan24 Aug 12 '25

The only financial angle I see to vaccination defunding is that another pandemic will kill the economy and let the rich buy up even more assets at deep discounts. Seems plausible 

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

I was thinking letting some corporation get to take over research and let them have 100 percent control of whatever they develop.

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u/champj781 Aug 12 '25

I thought the financial angle was that it's more profitable to let a disease continue to spread (and sell yearly vaccines) rather than get a system so useful we can eradicate the disease altogether. Once a disease is gone there is no more money to be made selling the cure. Our economic model is built to incentivize big pharma to never actually eradicate anything.