Carbohydrate-based vaccine against cancer?

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Couldn't we be immunized against cancer? This sounds like a dream, but is in fact a thoroughly realistic research goal. American researchers have now taken an important step forward in the development of a cancer vaccine. Their fully synthetic vaccine candidate consists of an oligosaccharide, a peptide, and a lipopeptide.


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