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PARIS, Oct 16 — The coronavirus pandemic has made vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the mRNA technology that they use into household names. These types of jabs are new but researchers have been working for decades to try to figure out how to use messenger RNA for other vaccinations...

PARIS, Oct 16 — The coronavirus pandemic has made vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the mRNA technology that they use into household names.

In the case of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna jabs, lab-generated mRNA tells human cells to create antigens — proteins that are similar to ones found in the Covid-19 virus. After the cells create these proteins, the body breaks down the mRNA instructions and gets rid of them. A decade later, scientists were able to get the same results in mice, but mRNA still had two major drawbacks as a medical tool.On top of that, mRNA molecules are fragile, making them difficult to deliver to the system without altering them.

 

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