'We feel that a cure for cancer, or to changing cancer patients' lives, is in our grasp.'
that they believe will be a sea change in the treatment of the deadly disease.
According to Tureci, it was research for mRNA-based and patient-specific cancer vaccines that led them to the spike protein discoveries that ultimately acted as a "tailwind" for current COVID vaccines. The mRNA or messenger RNA in BioNTech's developing vaccines will target cancer cells as if they were on a "'wanted poster' of the enemy," she told thereporter. In doing so, the mRNA will be able to distinguish cancer cells from normal ones and then kill them.
"I don't think so," Tureci replied. "Everything we have learned about the immune system and about what we achieve with a cancer vaccine shows, in principle, the clear activity — we can induce those killer T-cells, we can direct them."
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