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Latest mRNA vaccines mark a new dawn in global fight against viruses – Sydney Morning Herald
After decades of scepticism, the breakthrough success of Moderna and Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines herald a new age in vaccine science.
Many had been sceptical of mRNA, worried that it was too fragile and difficult to deliver.
With those limitations now seemingly overcome, researchers who work in the field are already imagining what else the technology could cure: future pandemics, HIV, cystic fibrosis, even cancer.
People said youd never be able to deliver it into cells. We now know thats not a problem. People said you could never get it stable. We now know that can be done, said Associate Professor Archa Fox, an mRNA researcher…
