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mRNA Vaccines – Trials Line Up Against Coronavirus

New Technology Attracts Attention

 
• By Alexandra Shimmings

The arrival of SARS-CoV-2 has focused attention on a potential new way of making vaccines – one that promises to be quicker and cheaper than traditional methods and more reactive to novel virus outbreaks, but also one that remains to be validated.

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A major campaign in biopharma’s war against COVID-19 is the development of effective vaccines against the novel virus.

While industry scrambles to repurpose drugs against the disease – antivirals against the pathogen and immunomodulators to help the symptoms...

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