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PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE GSCHMEISSNER, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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After years of failure, vaccines to treat cancer are showing promise.
How? Innovations like genome sequencing have allowed scientists to take a closer look at tumor cells and their abnormalities. That’s letting them design vaccines aimed at much more specific targets.
Today’s goal: destroy cancer cells. Some scientists are also testing vaccines that might one day prevent a high-risk individual from developing cancer, Nat Geo reports in its look at the new vaccines. (Pictured above, two T lymphocyte cells, in yellow, attached to a cancer cell, in green.)
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