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Moderna is a biotechnology company that pioneered mRNA technology, known for its COVID-19 vaccine and a pipeline of other vaccines and cancer therapeutics.
US flu positivity reached 3.6% in the CDC's Oct. 9 FluView, six times the 0.6% recorded a year earlier. Scientific American reports it is too early to call the season severe, but the early H1N1 rise gives teams a reason to move vaccination dates up.
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Merck and Moderna are preparing to file their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine after a Phase 3 trial showed it delayed recurrence. At the STAT Summit, executives said the next task is showing it works in other tumors, and that they must pick where to look first.
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Merck and Moderna's mRNA vaccine intismeran autogene slowed the return and spread of melanoma when added to an existing treatment in a late-stage trial. One trial cannot say which other cancers the same approach can treat.
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Korea's SME ministry broke ground on a 217.3 billion won lab hub in Songdo built to house 60 bio startups by 2028. Private money is 8.1 billion won of that, so the state is building the cluster before investors have shown they will follow the tenants in.
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Carnegie Mellon senior Nivedita Shyamsundar tracked colour changes in iPhone video frame by frame to show metal nanoparticles form from merging clusters. Her program lets a lab time the fast early stages of such reactions with a camera it already owns.
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MIT researchers used an AI algorithm to reformulate mRNA vaccine nanoparticles that stay stable for a year at room temperature and two months near 38C. In mice the shots matched a Moderna-like vaccine. The lab says the change could loosen the ultracold cold chain.
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Intismeran autogene plus Keytruda beat Keytruda alone in resected melanoma. The market added roughly $35bn to Moderna on a result the companies described only in adjectives.
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Intismeran autogene met both primary endpoints in a 1,137-patient melanoma trial. Every dose is built from one tumour's sequence, which turns approval into a question about process, not product.
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The companies say intismeran plus Keytruda slowed melanoma's return after surgery in the first randomized Phase 3 test of neoantigen vaccines. No detailed data has been released.
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Merck and Moderna put out no efficacy figures. Illumina still rose 16% and PacBio 18%, because an approved per-patient therapy implies a sequencing run per patient.
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Doses of Oxford's Bundibugyo vaccine were manufactured at record speed. The efficacy trials that would prove them need contact tracing in DRC communities where humanitarian workers are distrusted and attacked.
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Hana Asset Management's medical AI fund led every ETF listed in South Korea last week, helped by a Morgan Stanley estimate that Medicare coverage could add $330m to $400m of annual revenue at its largest holding.
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Moderna's melanoma readout and an FDA approval a week later gave biotech bulls their summer story, though the figure worth underwriting is the calendar behind the RAS drug: money raised in 2012, asset sold in 2018, approval fourteen years on.
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Direct RNA sequencing turned up a library of hybrid transcripts in mammalian cells, almost 400 of them responsive to inflammatory signals. The one-gene-one-protein reference list has no slot for any of them.
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Intismeran autogene would arrive with a selection procedure where other drugs have a fixed molecule, and the outside expert STAT asked could not say what the software weighs. That makes the ranking code the hard part of any review.
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An LLM read a decade of corporate filings and found production AI at under a quarter of the index, two thirds of it in technology. The non-tech comparison group is tiny.
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MassBio's annual snapshot pairs a recovering VC, IPO and M&A market with a 39% fall in seed capital, a 6% drop in NIH awards and 3,605 lost jobs.
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Moderna and MSD's V940 hit both endpoints in adjuvant melanoma. The commercial consequence sits with Keytruda SC, whose conversion rate reached 10.6% in July.
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One death and 487 severe cases out of 522,000 reported infections put the exposure in Korea's fixed 4.84 million doses and a two-week rollout window, not in supply chains.
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The KOSPI closed up 0.88% on the 21st while the KOSDAQ fell 4.63%. That gap is not risk appetite. It is two chip names promising to hand cash back.
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