A Vaccine Against ... Cancer?
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SciShow is supported by Skillshare. [ ♪ Intro ♪ ] Last week, a group of researchers from Stanford unveiled a vaccine that cures cancer in mice, and if we can get it to work in humans, it will save a lot of lives. Which sounds amazing, because cancers are terrible. But it also sounds weird, because when we talk about vaccines, we usually mean something you get before you are sick, and that’s meant to protect against things that you might catch from other people. Cancer vaccines stimulate the immune system in a similar way, except they’re meant to be injected after you get sick and to cure something that’s basically a part of yourself gone rogue. And it’s a cool idea. But despite what’s being reported in a lot of the articles about this new re...
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SciShow is supported by Skillshare. [ ♪ Intro ♪ ] Last week, a group of researchers from Stanford unveiled a vaccine that cures cancer in mice, and if we can get it to work in humans, it will save a lot of lives. Which sounds amazing, because cancers are terrible. But it also sounds weird, because when we talk about vaccines, we usually mean something you get before you are sick, and that’s meant to protect against things that you might catch from other people. Cancer vaccines stimulate the immune system in a similar way, except they’re meant to be injected after you get sick and to cure something that’s basically a part of yourself gone rogue. And it’s a cool idea. But despite what’s being reported in a lot of the articles about this new re...
