Two companies with local ties are leading the race for approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but this story is also so much more. It’s also about dreams raised and dashed, of billions at risk and perhaps to be made, and an unproven genetic technology that just might save the world.
The experts behind the BioNTech coronavirus jab have developed another vaccine which they claim cures multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice.
The new MS vaccine works in a similar way to the coronavirus vaccine, manufactured in conjunction with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
A piece of genetic material known as mRNA is inserted into a person s arm and forces the body s own cells to produce a protein that confers immunity.
In the case of the coronavirus vaccine, this protein mimics the virus s protruding spike, kickstarting the immune system to start making antibodies.
If a person later contracts the coronavirus, the immune system rapidly creates antibodies again and fights the infection before it can take hold or spread.
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