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STAT+: The mystery of Moderna’s magic algorithm

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STAT+: The mystery of Moderna’s magic algorithm
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A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck has generated widespread enthusiasm since the companies announced last week that it had succeeded in a late-stage trial. If regulators ultimately approve it, the treatment will be a triumph of immunology and cancer biology.



But it may also be a triumph of the algorithm.



The vaccine, intismeran autogene, would be the first approved medicine whose genetic instructions — that is, the individual letters of its mRNA &#x201

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