{"id":69867,"date":"2023-10-02T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=69867"},"modified":"2023-10-02T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:35:00","slug":"mrna-proved-magic-in-covid-vaccines-what-else-can-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=69867","title":{"rendered":"mRNA proved magic in Covid vaccines. What else can it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 03, 2023 7:35 AM<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; When it became clear in early 2020 that the Sars-CoV-2 virus posed a pandemic threat, researchers who had been exploring using messenger RNA to develop vaccines saw an opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 shots made this way were the first to demonstrate efficacy, and they have proved to be the most effective vaccines against the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Two scientists, Katalin Kariko and Dr Drew Weissman, whose research laid the groundwork for their development won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The performance of the vaccines, from Moderna and the Pfizer\/BioNTech partnership, has raised hopes among scientists that mRNA technology will prove useful against other diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/mrna-proved-magic-in-covid-vaccines-what-else-can-it-do\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 03, 2023 7:35 AM NEW YORK &#8211; When it became clear in early 2020 that the Sars-CoV-2 virus posed a pandemic threat, researchers who had been exploring using messenger RNA to develop vaccines saw an opportunity. Covid-19 shots made this way were the first to demonstrate efficacy, and they have proved to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-69867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}