Billionaire to back Covid-19 and cancer vaccines in South Africa

[BusinessTech]

Billionaire to back Covid-19 and cancer vaccines in South Africa

South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong will announce a plan to transfer technology for the manufacture of Covid-19 and cancer vaccines to the country.

 

["D"]

(Mr) Soon...

 

[etienne_marais]

I don't get how cancer treatments can be vaccines, cancer is not a virus. Will antibodies attack cancer cells or what is it all about ?

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Good, positive development! Africa really needs to increase its pharmaceuticals manufacturing capacity.

 

[Brenden_E]

I don't get how cancer treatments can be vaccines, cancer is not a virus. Will antibodies attack cancer cells or what is it all about ?

What a confusing headline

 

[Speedster]

I don't get how cancer treatments can be vaccines, cancer is not a virus. Will antibodies attack cancer cells or what is it all about ?

How does the cervical cancer vaccine work?

 

[etienne_marais]

How does the cervical cancer vaccine work?

No idea, I'll check it out

 

[P924]

How does the cervical cancer vaccine work?

It is an HPV vaccine. HPV being the cause of most cervical cancers.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

I don't get how cancer treatments can be vaccines, cancer is not a virus. Will antibodies attack cancer cells or what is it all about ?

I think the mRNA cancer "vaccine" works by training the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as hostile cells that should be destroyed, whereas at the moment the immune system mostly ignores it (I think).
Since it is still priming the immune system, it can probably be called a vaccine.

I remember this from reading an article some months ago, and I am obviously not a medical professional, so take with a heap of salt.

 

[grok]

I think the mRNA cancer "vaccine" works by training the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as hostile cells that should be destroyed, whereas at the moment the immune system mostly ignores it (I think).

Is this mRNA thing a result of Covid research?
If so it means the Covid fallout might have given us a good spinoff, at least.

 

[Pixual]

Don't do drugs, kids.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

Is this mRNA thing a result of Covid research?
If so it means the Covid fallout might have given us a good spinoff, at least.

I actually don't know.
I assume that covid funding helped with mRNA research, but I also think that they overcame 99.9% or even 100% of the hurdles with the tech by the time covid came around.

 

[grok]

I actually don't know.
I assume that covid funding helped with mRNA research, but I also think that they overcame 99.9% or even 100% of the hurdles with the tech by the time covid came around.

Same same, but I suspect the sudden voluminous injection of Covid-bashing research funds may have had the effect of accelerating the outcome.