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Because it's buried in some two thousand words: > helping cells produce tissue to heal from events such as cardiac arrest > beyond simple vaccines [...] mRNA
by lucb1e 6y ago
Because it's buried in some two thousand words:
> helping cells produce tissue to heal from events such as cardiac arrest
> beyond simple vaccines [...] mRNA therapeutics might be tailored to instruct a person’s immune system to fight their specific type of cancer, or target protein deficiencies in specific organs, and without the toxic side effects of traditional medications.
> “My personal moonshot is snake venom, and antivenoms for snake bites,” he says. [...] “You inject it into a person, and within hours the protein that you wish is being expressed,” he explains. The final product of such research, he imagines, would be an antidote that could work for the most lethal species of a specific area, delivered in a way that can be preserved for long times in very remote areas—for instance, a powder that can be stored for long periods of time and reconstituted quickly.
This is literally all the info I found that is actually relevant to the interesting headline. The rest of the article is about this person's career and what funding vaccine companies got in 2020.
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- cies 6y agoThanks for the TLDR. Based on this I'll not read it.
- prvc 6y agoThank you for the summary. We know we're deep in the weeds when heart disease and cancer are the afterthoughts among candidate diseases to treat.
- spurgu 6y agoI think another key takeaway is that mRNA didn't really seem to interest anyone until the pandemic came along.
- karmelapple 6y agoWhen you say anyone, do you mean anyone with massive funds to finance a big effort with mRNA? Because that would also be wrong. This comment is either just wrong, or at least missing some very important context. There’s a massive amount of research about mRNA. Gene therapy, vaccines, lots more. And there was money already sunk in to have mRNA vaccines at a proof of concept stage before the pandemic. There just never was the urgency to use mRNA in a vaccine until the last 15 months. But mRNA research is all over the place, and not just in vaccines. Source: my life scientist partner Edit: Google search for RNA institute turns up lots of results at universities all over the place: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=institute%20for%20rna%20biology https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=institute%20for%20rna%...
- DoreenMichele 6y agoYes, thanks for that. I seem to not even be able to access the article.
- spurgu 6y agoHere you go: https://archive.is/LPONQ https://archive.is/LPONQ
- DoreenMichele 6y agoThank you very much. I found one I inferred from the above quotes but wasn't listed: Rossi was instead interested in using mRNA technology to treat rare genetic diseases which couldn’t be cured by other means. And I'm not done reading. I just know something about genetic disorders and the stuff about proteins hinted at this possiblity in my mind.