Day: 13 12 月, 2021

The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning

It is the molecule that your own cells use to carry instructions from your genes, written in a simple four-letter chemical language. “It seemed too good to be true. No respiratory vaccine has ever had that kind of efficacy.” Modern vaccines often stretch out past a decade of development. BioNTech – and US-based Moderna, shattered that conventional timeline. Neither company was a household name before the pandemic. There are at least six mRNA vaccines against flu in the pipeline, and a similar number against HIV. Nipah, Zika, herpes, dengue, hepatitis and malaria have all been announced.

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