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Big breakthroughs begin at the microscopic level. Vigo, Spain — February 20, 2025National Symposium on Precision Oncology. The city of Vigo recently hosted the VIII National Symposium on Precision Oncology , bringing together leading specialists from across Spain to discuss the latest clinical advances and the organizational challenges shaping this rapidly evolving field. The symposium has become an essential meeting point — a place where science meets real-life care, and whe

As we have mentioned on previous occasions, the COVID pandemic brought us a technology that may revolutionize medicine: mRNA vaccines. An mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine is a type of treatment that uses genetic instructions to teach the body how to defend itself. Instead of containing viruses or tumor cells, these vaccines carry a message that tells our cells how to produce small proteins that the immune system can recognize as a threat. This system was successfully used in COVI

David Liu, the mind that could change the present of cancer and leukemia David R. Liu is still largely unknown, but we’re talking about someone who will probably win a Nobel Prize in the coming years—not just any Nobel, but the kind that transforms societies through its applications. This scientist is quietly reshaping medicine. A researcher at Harvard and the Broad Institute, Liu is one of the major pioneers of gene editing—a technology that allows us to rewrite DNA with a l

According to the prestigious scientific publisher ScienceDirect, in an article published on July 10, 2025, great progress is being made in the study of vaccines targeting the cancer cells that cause leukemia. This article and its images are based on information from that scientific publication on ScienceDirect. Because not everyone understands more than one language, we are including a translation of the article and a link so you can consult the original source. Let’s keep go

The Children Who Lived Inside a Machine: The Story of Polio and the Importance of the Vaccine In the mid-20th century, before the polio vaccine existed, thousands of families lived with a quiet fear. Polio, a viral disease easily transmitted through direct contact or contaminated water and food, affected mainly children. Many could contract the virus without severe symptoms, but others suffered permanent paralysis. The most critical cases were those in which polio paralyzed t

Hans Clevers and the Silent Revolution of Organoids What if we could shorten the timelines of medical trials by testing new treatments directly on human organs? That is, skipping to the final step before clinical trials and then moving straight into action. This could mean that a treatment which normally takes 5 years to reach hospitals could do so in less than half that time. But, on the other hand, we would also be able to discard much sooner the treatments that would not o