Sydney scientist pioneers world-first personalised mRNA cancer treatment
Professor Georgina Long and Sydney researchers have achieved a landmark medical milestone with custom-tailored mRNA cancer vaccines, the SMH reports. The breakthrough treatment primes a patient's own immune defences to recognise and attack melanoma cells, showing major promise in clinical trials.
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What Reddit is saying: Australians expressed fierce pride in local medical research, celebrating Long's team tackling the country's most deadly skin cancer.
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This gives me a lot of pride as a fellow Aussie. What a fantastic result for Georgina Long here. Melanoma hits us harder than anywhere else in the world and so this feels very tailored and very special for us Australians. Love it.
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