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I work in pharma and a coworker asked if they could use my code (a model inference server). I asked what they were doing and it's an ML model for determining clinical dosing for a cancer trial. They sequence a person's cancer, then develop custom RNAs that train the immune system to eliminate that cancer (similar to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-026-02769-3) which they inject into the patient.

I would like to thank all the scientists who have dedicated all their hard work and ingenuity to eliminating the impact of cancer. Also, fuck cancer.

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I'm not aware of cancer vaccines that use this sort of b-cell priming, though I've heard lots about mRNA vaccines, as well as neo-epitope based cancer therapeutic vaccines. Are you analogizing the neoepitope approaches to the B cell progression here? That is somewhat similar, but the chain of new vaccines does seem quite different and novel to me.
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I cannot answer those questions as much as I wish I could. My dads papers around the stuff they are working on is here if it’s of any use https://www.sciencedirect.com/author/7005329466/gunnar-kvalh...
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