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Abstract
Personalized cancer vaccines aim to broaden the anti-tumor T cell repertoire by targeting neoantigens unique to each patient’s tumor, but immunogenicity has been inconsistent. In this issue of Cell, Blass, Keskin, Tu et al. evaluate NeoVaxMI, a multi-adjuvant personalized synthetic long-peptide vaccine administered with nivolumab in patients with melanoma. NeoVaxMI elicited stronger CD4+ and CD8+ responses than earlier iterations, and vaccine-induced T cells trafficked to regressing metastatic lesions.
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Cells is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on cell biology, molecular biology, and biophysics. It is affiliated with several societies, including the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Nordic Autophagy Society (NAS), Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SEHH), and Society for Regenerative Medicine (Russian Federation) (RPO).
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