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>It's even amazing that mRNA vaccines actually made it to the market, and if it hadn't been for the pandemic, there's a good chance that it would be another 15
by htss2013 3y ago
>It's even amazing that mRNA vaccines actually made it to the market, and if it hadn't been for the pandemic, there's a good chance that it would be another 15 years before they do, and this mRNA vaccination tech has been brewing since the 90s, I think?
Have they made it to market? It's been like 4 years and there are no other ones to be found outside of trials. This is kind of strange because we were told this is so much easier, safer and faster than other technologies. If the US wasn't accepting for whatever weird reason, then you'd think they'd pop up in lots of other countries. But doesn't seem like that is happening.
- epistasis 3y agoThis is the pace of typical development these days, outside of pandemic rushes. And four years ago was pre-pandemic, it's only been a couple years of pushing on other targets. mRNA vaccine tech is one of the biggest advances in biotech in a long time, the other apparatus has not necessarily caught up.
- htss2013 3y agoThey've been targeting other things with mrna vaccines since way before the pandemic. For example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31079849/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31079849/ (2019) https://jitc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40425-015-0068-y https://jitc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40425-015-0... (2015)