Imagine visiting your doctor for a routine checkup, and on top of the usual shots — the annual flu or COVID vaccine—your doctor asks if you’d like to be vaccinated for cancer. All cancer— lung, ski…
Imagine visiting your doctor for a routine checkup, and on top of the usual shots — the annual flu or COVID vaccine—your doctor asks if you’d like to be vaccinated for cancer.That scenario, which sounds like something out of science fiction, might be closer than you think. And it’s mostly thanks to the COVID vaccine – which in a few short years has become the highest-profile of the increasingly influential family known as mRNA vaccines.
And cancer is just the tip of the iceberg. Earlier this month, scientists Edo Kon and and Dan Peer from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research announced that they’d created a single dose vaccine that could effectively protect people from Yersinia pestis bacterium. Haven’t heard of it? That’s because it’s better known Anna Blakney, an RNA researcher at the University of British Columbia, says we are currently in the midst of an “mRNA renaissance.
It may seem like these advances have arrived staggeringly fast, but researchers have been experimenting with mRNA treatments. “Scientists first started studying mRNA vaccines in 1990,” says Blakney. “The first RNA vaccine clinical trial was started in 2009.” But then came the pandemic, and its urgency meant “bureaucratic red tape was reduced,” says Keith Knutson, a professor of immunology at the Mayo Clinic who researches and develops cancer vaccines. “It resulted in critical re-evaluation of some of the rules, regulations, and procedures that guide drug development.”
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