Sentences with phrase «personalized cell vaccines»

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As researchers learn more about genetic profile of various cancers, other work is charging ahead to deliver personalized vaccines targeted to a patient's own tumor cells

One difficulty is that everyone's dendritic cells are different, so vaccines need to be personalized, making them expensive and labor - intensive to produce.

The personalized vaccine is made from patients» own immune cells, which are exposed in the laboratory to the contents of the patients» tumor cells, and then injected into the patients to initiate a wider immune response.

Moderna is also doing animal safety tests of a personalized cancer vaccine that would code for immune - activating proteins unique to a person's cancer cells, based on genetic sequencing of their tumor.

«The idea is that these vaccine nanodiscs will trigger the immune system to fight the existing cancer cells in a personalized manner,» Moon said.