An experimental vaccine offers new hope to patients with melanoma, one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer. The pharmaceutical companies Merck and Moderna released the results of a Phase 3 clinical trial that evaluated the efficacy of a personalized mRNA-based vaccine that, when combined with immunotherapy, reduced the risk of disease recurrence or
Division of Radiation and Genome Stability, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Yizhou Joseph He, Khyati Meghani, Chunyu Yang, Jie Bian, Jessica Moore, Joshi Niraj, Alan D. D’Andrea, Pascal Drané & Dipanjan Chowdhury Genome Stability Laboratory, CHU de Québec Research Center, HDQ Pavilion, Oncology Axis, Québec City, Québec, Canada Marie-Christine Caron, Daryl A. Ronato & Jean-Yves Masson Department of Molecular
Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, A few months ago, I started a PhD at a university in North America. I have a disability that affects both my physical and my mental capacity, and its impact on me fluctuates. The more I can rest, the fewer symptom flare-ups I experience. Unfortunately, my laboratory has
Bat Week officially begins today. It’s the one week where Earth’s only winged mammals get top billing. Often associated with disease, vampires, and other generally unpleasant things, bats are actually important pollinators and play critical roles in our ecosystem. “They’re just so cool and so interesting. During first forays into bat studies, it was just
Environmental restoration sometimes requires out-of-the-box thinking. Along the waters of Long Island Sound in New York and Connecticut, experts are tackling the challenge of restoring crucial eelgrass habitats by gluing the plant’s seeds to clams. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an important member of the ecosystem. It provides foraging areas and shelter for young fish and
An outbreak of Shamonda virus was detected in cows in Europe in July and is ongoing.Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty An individual with cancer in France has become the first person known to contract the Shamonda virus, after an outbreak in livestock in Europe that was first identified in July. The man, aged in his