After Covid success, RNA vaccines may be here to stay
- Date: 16-Nov-2020
- Source: Gulf Today
- Sector:Industrial
- Country:GCC
After Covid success, RNA vaccines may be here to stay
University of Pennsylvania immunologist Drew Weissman poses at his home on Nov. 9, 2020. File/Tribune News Service
Tom Avril, Tribune News Service
When Drew Weissman first started injecting mice with genetic molecules called messenger RNA, it did not go well. Many of the animals became overwhelmed with harmful inflammation, and some died.
But Weissman solved that problem with a bit of clever biochemistry 15 years ago, working with then-colleague Katalin Kariko at the University