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COVID-19 Promise Fulfilled, But Where Next For mRNA Vaccines?

 
• By Alexandra Shimmings

After a baptism of fire during the coronavirus pandemic, mRNA vaccine technology has earned its stripes. In less than a year, mRNA vaccines have been catapulted from interesting pipeline prospects to game-changers in the fight against COVID-19. But what does this success mean for the future of the technology?

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology was long on promise but short on evidence and there was no expectation of that changing in the near future.

Fast forward 12 months and what had been touted as the technology’s advantages – nimbleness of response to a new threat, speed of manufacture, potent immunogenicity – have all been confirmed by the rapid development and approval of the first two COVID-19 vaccines from two

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