Ira Flatow
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1,299 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Moderna and Merck recently announced results from their clinical trial, which suggests that this new vaccine, in combination with another drug, significantly reduced recurrence rates of the skin cancer in patients.
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The companies have not yet released full data from the trial.
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So, how does the vaccine work?
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And does this mark the beginning of an
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A new era of cancer treatments using mRNA vaccine technology.
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Here to explain is a physician whose patients were part of the drug trial.
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Dr.
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Michael Pastou, Chief of the Melanoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center here in New York.
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Welcome to Science Friday.
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Y you're welcome.
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All right, uh Doctor Postow, can you put this news in context for us?
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Just how big a deal is this new vaccine?
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We uh
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay, let's talk a bit more about the science.
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Take us into the weeds, how this is personalized vaccine and how it's made.
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So to use this vaccine, it's a personalized therapy.
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Each individual would have to be looked at individually, not just in mass as a vaccine.
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So it sounds like it's it's an expensive and time consuming process.
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We don't yet know what the price tag is, right?
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