https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2021.10072
mRNA vaccines: Why and how they should be modified
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Published: October 11, 2021
Accepted: September 29, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated the production of different therapeutic approaches for the resolution of coronavirus infections. On one hand, nanobiomolecules have been proposed as bait material for viruses,1,2 on the other hand unconventional messenger RNA vaccines have been produced like SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines (BioNTech/Pfizer BNT162b2 and Moderna mRNA-1273). [...]
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Feliciello, I., & Procino, A. (2021). mRNA vaccines: Why and how they should be modified. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 94(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2021.10072
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