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  "id": 2439664,
  "title": "Moderna, Merck Cancer Vax Gives Hope",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/moderna-merck-cancer-vax-gives-hope",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T21:53:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-08-21/moderna-merck-cancer-vax-gives-hope-video"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Scientists are on the cusp of fulfilling a decades-long quest: to use vaccines to teach the immune system to spot and destroy cancer cells. News that an mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Merck & Co. and Moderna Inc. kept melanoma from returning in a large, late-stage trial marks a critical next chapter for a technology beleaguered by post-pandemic political backlash and years of false starts…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}