date:Dec 10, 2018
the technology could one day lead to rapid production of single shot vaccines against an emerging epidemic, or of cocktail vaccines against several different infectious diseases.
The thinking behind the saRNA approach is to harness the body's own cell machinery to make an antigen - in other words a foreign substance that induces an immune response - rather than injecting the antigen itself directly into the body.
The other advantage is that it's very rapid to manufacture because it's a synthet