Reading time: 4 minutes Indiwari Gopallawa After years of seminal research work, mRNA technology got its moment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, mRNA-based cancer vaccines remain a relatively new and untapped class of vaccines that show great potential. The enthusiasm for this novel technology has been increasing due to recently published experimental... Continue Reading →
Reading time: 7 minutes Felicites Rapon Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the causative agent of hepatitis C, an infectious disease of the liver causing inflammation and necrosis. HCV infection can be either acute (which can be cleared without any medicines) or chronic. The latter can be due to environmental factors such as alcohol usage but... Continue Reading →
Reading time: 4 minutes Jacqueline Mann In December 2020, less than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines to prevent COVID-19. These vaccines work differently from traditional immunizations: they contain a specific sequence of messenger RNA (mRNA) that... Continue Reading →
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