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Moderna's promise: "A vaccine for cancer and heart disease will be ready by 2030" - voila! health

2023-04-09T17:04:27.717Z


After bringing the news of the corona vaccines, the company claims that in the coming years it will be able to bring the news to hundreds of thousands and millions of cancer and heart disease patients. So how will it work?


Iris Cole interviews Prof. Ido Wolf of Ichilov about the developments in the field of cancer (Walla system!)

Life-saving vaccines targeting serious health conditions including cancer and heart disease could be ready within the next seven years, experts believe.

Pharmaceutical company Moderna - which has produced one of the leading vaccines for COVID-19 - is reportedly developing "custom" vaccines to target different types of cancer.



Moderna's chief medical officer, Dr. Paul Burton, said the treatment would be "highly effective" with the potential to save "many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives" as early as 2030. The groundbreaking research could lead to a single shot offering protection against



infections Multiple in the respiratory tract - including corona, flu and RSV virus.

to edit the genetic cause of the disease

Research in cancer, as well as infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases and rare diseases, has shown "tremendous promise," Dr. Burton revealed in an interview with Britain's Guardian. "I think we will have mRNA-based therapies for rare diseases that were previously untreatable, and I I think that in 10 years from now, we will be approaching a world where you can really identify the genetic cause of the disease, relatively simply, and then edit and repair it using mRNA-based technology."

Only one shot (Photo: Reuters)

How will personalized cancer vaccines work?

To vaccinate someone against cancer, doctors start by taking a biopsy of the patient's tumor before using genetic sequencing to identify mutations.

An algorithm identifies which mutations cause cancer growth and may stimulate the immune system.



A molecule of mRNA is produced with instructions to produce antigens that cause an immune response.

The mRNA, after injection, is translated into proteins identical to those found on tumor cells.

Immune cells then collide with cancer cells carrying the same proteins and destroy them.



Dr. Burton added: "I think what we've learned in the last few months is that if you ever thought that mRNA was only for infectious diseases, or only for coronavirus, the evidence now is that that's absolutely not the case.

"It can be applied to all kinds of disease areas, whether it's cancer, infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, rare diseases. We have studies in all of these areas and they've all shown enormous promise."



Dr. Burton said the coronavirus pandemic has allowed Moderna to "scale up production," meaning the company is "very good at producing large amounts of vaccine very quickly." The



pandemic "has meant that things that might have taken a decade or even 15 years to resolve have been compressed into a year or A year and a half," he said. However, scientists cautioned that a high level of investment is required to maintain the rapid progress, which has skyrocketed in the past three years.

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