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"When NPR first featured the work of Brazilian scientists and longtime best
friends Patricia Neves and Ana Paula Ano Bom, they were in the early stages of
an audacious attempt to break open global access to vaccines – specifically the
ones made with the cutting-edge mRNA technology that Moderna and Pfizer
developed for use against COVID.
Neves and Ano Bom had been dismayed at Moderna and Pfizer’s unwillingness to
share their know-how during the pandemic, leaving people in low- and
middle-income countries like Brazil waiting to get the life-saving vaccines for
months after they’d been made widely available in wealthy countries.
The Brazilian friends’ solution: invent their own version of an mRNA vaccine
against COVID, then offer up the patent and the manufacturing process to
vaccine makers around the world, essentially for free.
And they planned to target plenty of other viruses beyond COVID. These vaccines
work by inserting a recipe into the body — the mRNA strand — that teaches cells
to build a piece of the targeted virus that the body’s immune system gears up
to attack. That way when a person is infected with the actual virus, the body
is ready for it.
So Neves and Ano Bom’s vision was to essentially build their mRNA COVID vaccine
as a plug-and-play system that could be quickly adapted to carry mRNA strands
against all sorts of other disease threats as they emerged around the world."
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
