Scientist behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's next target is cancer

Re:Scientist behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's ne... by dragontamer on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:41PM (#26518397)

I mean, in theory that's possible.

But in practice: personalized medicine is impossible to tests. We rely upon giving tens of thousands of volunteers medicine ahead-of-time to prove if medicine is safe.

While the technology theoretically exists to make and distribute personalized medicine, the ethics and safety questions of doing so remain unanswered.

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Re:Scientist behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's ne... by ghc on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:51PM (#26518481)

Personalized medicine has been tested for years in clinical trials. Trials require tens -- not tens-of-thousands -- of volunteers.

Personalized therapies are being used to treat cancer patients right now, and using machine learning to find the right binding site for a particular patient's tumor should present no more ethical questions than giving them NSAIDs.

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