Startups set off new wave of mRNA therapeutics

Elie Dolgin • September 2, 2021

After the vaccine triumphs of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, a raft of startups is developing mRNA, circular RNA and self-amplifying RNA therapeutics.

A cadre of new startups are building next-generation RNA platform technologies designed to solve some of the unique challenges associated with using conventional mRNA tools as therapeutics.


Read more at Nature Biotechnology.

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