A virus turned into a tailor's dummy could carry personalised cancer vaccines, antigen by antigen

MIT engineers built a vaccine carrier from a harmless virus that infects bacteria, reshaping it into a tiny fibre that can be coated with pieces of a patient's own tumour. By precisely controlling how densely those tumour markers are packed, they created a vaccine that protected mice against colon tumours — and the same platform can be re-dressed with different markers for different patients. The work, led by Professor Angela Belcher, is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials.

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