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Swedish researchers created vaccine eliminating peanut allergies permanently after single injection changing lives 🥜

A single shot that erases peanut allergies forever sounds impossible, but Karolinska Institute scientists have done exactly that. After one injection, patients with life-threatening peanut allergies can eat peanuts safely within weeks—no more EpiPens, no more label reading, no more fear. The first trial participants are now eating peanut butter sandwiches after years of avoidance.

The vaccine uses modified nanoparticles carrying peanut proteins combined with immune-regulating molecules that retrain your immune system to recognize peanuts as harmless. Traditional allergy treatments expose you to tiny amounts repeatedly; this approach reprograms the actual immune cells causing the reaction. The nanoparticles target specific T-cells and regulatory cells, essentially teaching your body's defense system that peanut proteins aren't invaders. It's like installing a software update that fixes a bug in your immune system's threat detection.

Peanut allergies affect 1-3% of children worldwide and have tripled in the past 20 years—we don't know why. Current treatments require years of carefully controlled exposure with constant risk of severe reactions. This single-dose cure means children can attend school without segregated lunch tables, parents can stop living in constant vigilance, and accidental exposures stop being potentially fatal. The technology also shows promise for other food allergies including tree nuts, shellfish, and dairy.

Phase II trial results show 89% of participants achieved complete tolerance, eating 4-5 peanuts without any reaction after a single injection. The effects have remained stable for over two years in early trial participants with no signs of wearing off. If we can cure one allergy with a single shot, what other immune system "errors" could we fix the same way?

Source: Karolinska Institute Department of Immunology, The Lancet 2025

RunIntoTheRain said:

That is amazing. Science for the win!

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Nano-particles? Nano-particle neurotransmitters is more like it. They’ll be drinking Billy Beer in no time!

lastexitlondon said:

Flu is really filling up our hospitals here. A strain not covered by this year's vaccination 

I wonder, if the vaccines are the same between countries?

This looks to be very serious. As I speak an ambulance is in my street for a  3 year old . And last week a child of 6 died two streets away from this new strain of the flu.
This is some scary shit

I don't know what my daughter caught, but she is not compromised, healthy as an ox, super fit, and she's been sick nearly a month. the first couple weeks she missed days of school and shifts of her new job, and she NEVER misses anything willingly. 

of course my wife feels horrendously guilty as she had been trying to schedule the flu shots and could never find a good time with all our schedules. who knows if it would have even made a difference, but anyway, it is a bastard.