Audiences will now hear the uncovered dramatic story about mRNA technologies that had never been told before. The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNA.
Baila Sebrow, producer and host of The Definitive Rap for 5Towns Central interviewed Fabrice Delaye to hear how people think it took just ten months to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19, when in fact it’s been in the works for decades! The vaccine was made possible by using messenger RNA (mRNA), the molecule that instructs cells to make a viral protein that stimulates the production of antiviral antibodies, this breakthrough technology, which Nobel Prize winner Thomas Cech calls biology’s equivalent of putting a man on the moon, had been in development for three frustrating decades—decades preceded by thirty years of fundamental research.
In The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNA, we will hear how mRNA’s medical potential was finally realized, setting the stage for a coming revolution in which our bodies will generate the therapeutic molecules we need. Though it’s now thought to show promise for the treatment of everything from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiovascular disease, mRNA was long-overlooked by mainstream molecular biologists. The path to recognition of its therapeutic possibilities was littered with broken careers, lawsuits, and opportunities missed by pharmaceutical companies.
Fabrice explained that the story of the mRNA vaccine for COVID, is bigger than we realize and that most of the science community did not believe in mRNA as a therapeutic for so long. He also talked about the amount of disappointment the biomedical researchers faced.
Fabrice discussed whether mRNA will make it possible to cure cancer, and offer hope for people with rare diseases and those who have them, as well as breakthroughs in how we treat more common diseases.
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