To infinity and beyond: how far can mRNA vaccine technology go?
With over 63 million confirmed cases and over 1.4 million deaths worldwide as of the start of December, the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly lit a fire under the pharmaceutical industry in the pursuit of therapeutics. In the process, with the recent emergency use authorisation in the UK for Pfizer and BioNTech’s BNT-162b2 vaccine, and the 94.5% efficacy reported by Moderna for its mRNA-1273 vaccine, a new technology has shot to the forefront: the mRNA vaccine.