{"id":242907,"date":"2026-08-19T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raising-new-treatment-hope"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:03:55","slug":"moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raising-new-treatment-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raising-new-treatment-hope","title":{"rendered":"Moderna, Merck vaccine cuts recurrence and spread of melanoma, raising new treatment hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moderna-merck-vaccine-cuts-recurrence-and-spread-of-melanoma-raising-new-treatment-hope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not yet approved, and this does not mean we have \u201ccured cancer.\u201d But it is an extraordinary proof of concept: sequencing + AI\/computational biology + mRNA + immunotherapy can be combined to create a treatment tailored to the genetic fingerprint of an individual patient\u2019s tumor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Moderna and Merck said on Wednesday that a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial, a major success in a new field of cancer treatment that sent Moderna\u2019s shares surging as much \u200cas 160%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not yet approved, and this does not mean we have \u201ccured cancer.\u201d But it is an extraordinary proof of concept: sequencing + AI\/computational biology + mRNA + immunotherapy can be combined to create a treatment tailored to the genetic fingerprint of an individual patient\u2019s tumor. Moderna and Merck said on Wednesday that a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}