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TUM researchers in Freising are discovering how steroid hormones regulate plant immunity—leading to high-yielding, disease-resistant crops.

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A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.

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