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Moderna uncloaks 'profound' immune-evading mRNA therapeutic platform

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Moderna Therapeutics has raised an impressive $40 million-plus in its first 18 months to fund technology that represents a profound change from established biological manufacturing - messenger RNA (mRNA) injected into the body and taken up by cells whose ribosomes then use the mRNA to produce therapeutic intra-cellular or secreted proteins.

Moderna Therapeutics has raised an impressive $40 million-plus in its first 18 months to fund technology that represents a profound change from established biological manufacturing - messenger RNA (mRNA) injected into the body and taken up by cells whose ribosomes then use the mRNA to produce therapeutic intra-cellular or secreted proteins.

In fact, Moderna president and CEO Stéphane Bancel told Scrip that the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company's platform represents such a shift in biotechnology thinking that the first time he saw

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