mRNA technology allows for faster development of vaccines by using messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce viral proteins to stimulate an immune response. It works by isolating the genetic code for a viral protein like the spike protein of COVID-19, producing mRNA with this code, and injecting the mRNA so cells can read it and manufacture the viral protein to trigger antibody production without being infected by a live virus. This mRNA vaccine approach is being used for COVID-19 vaccines and shows promise for cancer treatments by encoding proteins that can stimulate anti-tumor immune responses as well.
mRNA technology allows for faster development of vaccines by using messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce viral proteins to stimulate an immune response. It works by isolating the genetic code for a viral protein like the spike protein of COVID-19, producing mRNA with this code, and injecting the mRNA so cells can read it and manufacture the viral protein to trigger antibody production without being infected by a live virus. This mRNA vaccine approach is being used for COVID-19 vaccines and shows promise for cancer treatments by encoding proteins that can stimulate anti-tumor immune responses as well.
mRNA technology allows for faster development of vaccines by using messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce viral proteins to stimulate an immune response. It works by isolating the genetic code for a viral protein like the spike protein of COVID-19, producing mRNA with this code, and injecting the mRNA so cells can read it and manufacture the viral protein to trigger antibody production without being infected by a live virus. This mRNA vaccine approach is being used for COVID-19 vaccines and shows promise for cancer treatments by encoding proteins that can stimulate anti-tumor immune responses as well.
Developing vaccine was lengthy process in previous days.
Since a few years we have ability to create mRNA(messenger
RNA) vaccines which can be developed much faster. How IT forms?
So how do this? mRNA vaccine works? Are
they safe? To understand how it works let’s take the COVID-19 pandemic as an example. You might seen the pictures of the virus, with its distinctive spikes. These spikes allow virus to attach the cell of body and infect them. So, here’s the key idea for Covid 19 Vaccines. Researchers took the spikes of virus and isolated a part of RNA responsible for producing spikes and created messenger RNA(mRNA) with transcription. What is mRNA??
This is a special type of RNA that can enter
your cell and give instruction to build spike. It won’t infect you because its just a spike not a virus. HOW IT WORKS?
Once this mRNA vaccine is injected
in your body your immune system learn how to kill this spikes by producing antibodies against it. Uses OF mRNA TECHNOLOGY As you all know it is used in COVID 19 vaccines.