Most people first heard of mRNA technology when it heralded the end of the corona pandemic.
The vaccines against Covid-19, which were approved by the companies Biontech in Mainz and Moderna in record time, are an enormous success.
But the vaccine miracle is just the beginning.
The new high-tech medicine has the potential to defeat many scourges of humanity.
Regardless of whether AIDS, flu, tuberculosis, cancer of the breast, bowel, skin, lungs or prostate, multiple sclerosis, rheumatism, allergies of all kinds, inflammatory bowel diseases, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, osteoarthritis in the knee or broken intervertebral discs - mRNA develops against all these ailments -Researchers already have therapeutic approaches.
Can this revolutionize medicine?
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