DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane UK SCIENTISTS DEVELOP CANCER FIGHTING VACCINE THAT COULD BE BREAKTHROUGH Source: Stock British scientists have developed a potentially breakthrough cancer fighting vaccine that they believe may be effective in a wide variety of cancers. Here's what we know: It's a new mRNA cancer vaccine called mRNA-4359 Contains mRNA like the Covid 19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna This is a therapeutic cancer vaccine that provides immunotherapy, meaning it trains the immune system to fight cancer cells According to the scientists, this could be the "dawn of a new age of treatments" for cancer This is very different from vaccines that prevent cancer Initially targeted to help patients with advanced melanoma, lung cancer and other solid tumor cancers 81-year-old cancer patient in the UK is the first to receive i