Publish at January 09 2023 Updated January 09 2023
Before the covid-19 pandemic, few people had heard of medical messenger RNA technology. The latter enabled German laboratories, among others, to create a vaccine in less than a year against this new disease threat. Thus, the health community has been able to see on a large scale the potential of this genetic profile copying. Consequently, some wonder if this could defeat one of the great scourges since the beginning of humanity: cancers.
However, it is meant to be more difficult. Indeed, viruses are immediately identified as intruders. Messenger RNA then allows for faster identification and, more importantly, a more effective way to fight it. The strength of cancer is that it uses the body's own cells to multiply. Thus, the immune system does not see the threat.
However, technologies for analyzing healthy DNA as well as tumor tissue could lead to cures based on messenger RNA, as if the system were given the solution to a game of 7 errors. The future of oncology could be made up of both current cures (surgeries, chemotherapy) as well as being combined with this new technology, among others. Perhaps the pandemic will have had a positive side effect on the future of medicine...
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