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mRNA COVID vaccines saved lives and won a Nobel — what’s next for the technology?

Nature talks to experts about how messenger RNA is transforming medicine.
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  1. Elie Dolgin
  2. Heidi Ledford
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In just three short years, mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives, achieved household recognition and, as of this week, become the subject of a Nobel prize. Yet the field shows no signs of slowing down.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03119-x

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