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How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly – Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne
Explains how mRNA vaccines instruct cells to make a harmless viral protein that trains the immune system. It also shows how decades of prior…
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Gene Editing, Gene Therapy, and RNA Medicines: Three Different Ways to Change an Outcome
In December 2023 the FDA approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR-based therapy, for sickle cell disease. Here is how gene editing, gene therapy and RNA medicines differ, and what that approval does and doesn't prove.
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