MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Adding messenger RNA, or mRNA therapy improves the response to cancer immunotherapy in patients who weren’t responding to the treatment, Mayo Clinic research shows. Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to prevent, control, and eliminate cancer. The study is published in Cancer Immunology Research, a journal of the American Association...
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Easy-to-deliver mRNA treatment shows promise for stopping flu and COVID-19 viruses
by Georgia Institute of Technology Researcher Daryll Vanover works with the nebulizer he adapted to test a new mRNA-based treatment for flu and Covid-19. The team used mRNA technology to code for a protein called Cas13a that destroys parts of the RNA genetic code that viruses use to replicate in cells in the lungs. It was...