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ThoughtCriminal

(14,553 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:47 PM Mar 24

Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology [View all]

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473180-why-it-would-be-utter-madness-to-stop-funding-mrna-vaccine-technology/

"This week, researchers in the US were told to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications to the National Institutes of Health. It is thought this move could be a precursor to a halt in US government funding of this kind of biomedical research, which could have a wider chilling effect on research into this promising area."

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"These advances will take a lot longer to arrive if the US turns its back on the field because some politicians fail to understand basic biology. And any delays mean we all lose out, because mRNA-based therapies are going to benefit just about everyone on the planet. In fact, they already have."

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