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cylonfrakbbq t1_itvshsj wrote

Reply to comment by mountaingoat52 in Merck pays Moderna $250m for personalized cancer vaccine by tonymmorley

The word “personalized” all but guarantees it will be expensive

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Aakkt t1_ityddij wrote

Actually personalised doesn’t mean that at all. Basically if you have a certain gene that makes the disease either possible or easier to target then you can take the “personalised” treatment, even if 50% of everyone with the disease has the gene.

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