Good News: Cancer vaccine likely before 2030 and number of people under poverty line in India halved
This is your Good News round-up:The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine; a baby has received the world’s first successful intestinal transplant, and new research says transplanted livers can keep going for more than 100 years.
If you have always wanted to move to Spain, a new digital nomad visa could let you stay there for five years; and the number of people below the poverty line in India has halved in a 15-year period.
We also look at a very special Parisian dancing studio.1. The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccineVaccines to treat cancer could be here before 2030, say the founders of German firm BioNTech, which – along with Pfizer – manufactured the revolutionary mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.Professors Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci told the BBC they had made recent breakthroughs that could see a cure for cancer before the end of the decade.Scientists around the world have been working on a cancer vaccine for decades.The two scientists say that their experience of trying to develop a cancer vaccine helped them develop the COVID-19 vaccine, which then in turn helped accelerate the cancer vaccine.Researchers also think the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines revealed the possibilities of mRNA vaccine technology and that the development of the shot in record time also opened the way for regulators to speed up the process of vaccine approvals.
This will also help us accelerate any cancer vaccine.2. A baby received the world’s first successful intestinal transplantA 13-month-old Spanish baby girl called Emma received the world's first intestine transplant through an asystolic donation, from a donor at the end of