After a year of turmoil, cancer researchers see promising signs for mRNA vaccines | CNN
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The mRNA-based Covid vaccines helped blunt the impact of the pandemic but also sparked political backlash that has threatened to slow or derail dozens of potential cancer treatments. Now there are signs that the mRNA train is still on track.
MRNA is known to most people from high school science classes or for its use in Covid-19 vaccines.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was reported in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center with support from the Pulitzer Center.
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