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Russia's oncolytic vaccine “Enteromix” shows 100% success in Pre-clinical trials

Posted 09 Sep 2025

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Russia's Enteromix, a 100% successful preclinical oncolytic vaccine using virus combinations, targets colorectal cancer and boosts immune response; personalized mRNA vaccines offer tailored cancer treatment with ongoing challenges.

Russia is developing oncolytic vaccine Enteromix and Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for cancer treatment.

About oncolytic vaccine Enteromix

  • Oncolytic vaccines are a type of cancer therapy that uses oncolytic viruses (OVs) to directly kill cancer cells and stimulate an anti-tumor immune response.
  • Enteromix is based on a combination of four non-pathogenic viruses that have the ability to destroy malignant cells and simultaneously activate the patient's antitumor immunity.
    • Vaccine showed 100% success in preclinical trials.
  • Initial target of vaccine is colorectal cancer, Moreover, promising progress has been made in developing vaccines for glioblastoma and specific types of melanoma.

About Personalized mRNA Vaccines

  • Personalized Vaccine: Based on the genetic analysis of each patient's tumor, a unique vaccine is created that can "teach" the immune system to recognize cancer cells.
  • mRNA vaccines are a type of vaccine that use a small piece of messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct our cells to produce a protein specific to a virus.
    • mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) is a genetic molecule that contains instructions or recipe that directs cells to make a protein using its natural machinery.
  • mRNA delivers genetic material, encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles, into body to prompt protein production that match up with parts of pathogen called antigens.
    • E.g., the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 directed cells to produce copies of a protein on the outside of the coronavirus known as the spike protein.
  • Immune system sees these foreign antigens as invaders, dispatching defenders called antibodies and T-cells and training immune system for potential future attacks.

Challenges of mRNA vaccines:

  • Storage requirements: Require ultra-cold storage, making distribution difficult.
  • Short-term side effects: E.g. fever, fatigue, and soreness at the injection site.
  • Long-term safety: mRNA vaccines are relatively new, so long-term effects are still being studied.
  • Tags :
  • Cancer
  • Russia
  • mRNA vaccine “Enteromix”
  • mRNA technology
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