Dr. Wu and her team want to create personalized vaccines to battle cancer (Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ CC-BY-SA-2.0)

Scientists have found cures for many types of diseases. However, a guaranteed way to fight cancer has proved elusive. That is because every person's cancer is based on their particular genes. Dr. Catherine Wu and her team at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, aim to change that by developing custom vaccines to fight each person's unique cancer.