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    The huge potential of mRNA technology

    Oct 29, 2021 3 minutes

    What are mRNA vaccines?

    onventional vaccines work by training the immune system to recognise and fight viruses or bacteria by introducing an inactivated form of a virus (one that has been rendered harmless) into a patient’s body. However, the biotechnology used in the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna is fundamentally different. The aim is the same: to train the immune system to recognise and fight off the virus. But these new vaccines accomplish this by using synthetic “messenger RNA” to deliver a snippet of viral code to your

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