{"id":124009,"date":"2021-06-20T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-mrna-technology-is-altering-vaccine-treatments"},"modified":"2021-06-22T02:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T09:04:01","slug":"how-mrna-technology-is-altering-vaccine-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-mrna-technology-is-altering-vaccine-treatments","title":{"rendered":"How mRNA technology is altering vaccine treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-mrna-technology-is-altering-vaccine-treatments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it has to do with our technology,\u201d said Hoge. \u201cWe use something called messenger RNA, or mRNA for short. It\u2019s really just an instruction molecule, kind of like a software program for your cells. It just sends instructions about what the virus looks like to your immune system. So just like a software program, or a Word document, we can simply edit something, change it, and then manufacture it very, very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He makes it sound so easy, but it\u2019s taken more than a decade of research, and many technological hurdles. Now, the company has some big plans. \u201cWe\u2019ve had an incredible year using messenger RNA to fight a pandemic,\u201d Hoge said. \u201cBut we think we\u2019re just starting in the infectious disease space, And so, there\u2019s a large number of other vaccines we\u2019re bringing forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moderna\u2019s research pipeline includes everything from an HIV vaccine, to heart disease treatments, to vaccines for different kinds of cancer, including lymphoma and melanoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWell, it has to do with our technology,\u201d said Hoge. \u201cWe use something called messenger RNA, or mRNA for short. It\u2019s really just an instruction molecule, kind of like a software program for your cells. It just sends instructions about what the virus looks like to your immune system. So just like a software program, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124079,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124009\/revisions\/124079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}