coronavirus.Now, experts say that technology could and should be harnessed to develop vaccines for other emerging or existing diseases including malaria, HIV or even cancer.What is an mRNA vaccine and how can we use the technology moving forward?Here’s a closer look at what’s going on.
Coronavirus vaccine tracker: How many Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19? mRNA vaccines work by delivering the code for a virus’ protein into a human body’s cells so that it can make the protein on its own, Dr.
Matthew Miller, an associate professor with McMaster University’s department of biochemistry and biomedical sciences explained.“So these proteins are just one small, tiny piece of a pathogen that on their own don’t do any harm,” he said. “But.