Re:mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
by thehappypm on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:36AM
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This is an excellent article. Thank you for sharing.
This whole pandemic I've been waiting for us to "get lucky" and find that the virus has some weakness. Like some simple off-the-shelf medicine is a cure. Or that it spreads through some simple mechanism we can beat easily. Or that it can't handle summer. Or that it would never mutate.
Nothing seemed to go our way though.
Then the mRNA vaccines came and that was finally our lucky break! Now thanks to this article I can see that the real breakthroughs came years earlier, from basic researchers. Without these breakthroughs -- which I'm sure didn't excite the public or earn anyone a Nobel prize -- we'd have only inferior vaccines out there.
This whole pandemic I've been waiting for us to "get lucky" and find that the virus has some weakness. Like some simple off-the-shelf medicine is a cure. Or that it spreads through some simple mechanism we can beat easily. Or that it can't handle summer. Or that it would never mutate.
Nothing seemed to go our way though.
Then the mRNA vaccines came and that was finally our lucky break! Now thanks to this article I can see that the real breakthroughs came years earlier, from basic researchers. Without these breakthroughs -- which I'm sure didn't excite the public or earn anyone a Nobel prize -- we'd have only inferior vaccines out there.