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Once it does its job, and because it is
not stable, it falls apart and disappears,
so there’s nothing lingering in the body.
That’s why it is considered safe and
efficient.
Then, in 2020, due to Operation Warp
Speed, mRNA’s power was harnessed to
fight the pandemic.
The story of the COVID vaccine itself
was accomplished in a comparatively
short time, as it built on all the research
and clinical trials that had gone before.
“For example, within 42 days of the publication of the SARS-CoV-2 sequence
by Chinese scientists in January 2020,
Moderna sent its RNA vaccine candidate
to the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Disease for preclinical testing. By April 2020, Moderna launched
its first clinical trial. Less than 8 months
later, Moderna received Emergency Use
Authorization for its vaccine, after phase
III trials revealed 95% efficacy and excellent safety,” according to the National
Library of Medicine.
Project Warp Speed saved over 20
million lives and even today, what mRNA
can do is expanding at a breakneck
speed. Tomorrow, give or take a few
days, we will see personalized cancer
treatments and solutions to some of the
worst diseases and illnesses. mRNA represents a $30 billion industry in the U.S.
where we have hundreds of drugs in clinical development.
“Discoveries are made in strange
places,” says Coller, “and we can benefit
from those discoveries. All this technology and information on the COVID vaccine was spread via the internet. We start
with isolating the pathogen – the organism that caused the disease – and did the
sequencing, which, thanks to the Human
Genome Project, is done quickly. Today,
decades after the human genome was
completely defined, there are databases of sequences, so researchers know
which specific genes to target for various
issues.
“If you think about all the technology
that went into all this plus the support of
government funding, we are now devel-
mRNA promise,
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