COVID-19: Science behind Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can be used to give people cancer jabs 'within a couple of years', says co-creator
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-science-behind-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-can-be-used-to-give-people-cancer-jabs-within-a-couple-of-years-says-co-creator-1225069219 March 2021
The co-creator of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine has said the technology behind it could soon be used to fight cancer too.
While the vaccine has been bankrolled by the American pharmaceutical giant, the science itself is the work of BioNTech, a German company founded by married couple and dedicated physicians Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci....
...Both COVID-19 vaccines Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna use messenger RNA (mRNA) to send genetic instructions to the human body's cells for making proteins that prime it to attack the coronavirus.
The same principle can be applied to get the immune system to take on tumours....
...Asked when such a therapy might be available, she replied: "That's very difficult to predict in innovative development. But we expect that within only a couple of years, we will also have our vaccines (against) cancer at a place where we can offer them to people."...
