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by zeristor 2052 days ago
Great story, it’s not quite there yet; finalisation of the testing, and mass production to be done.

But with the huge financial and credibility boost I hope the team can follow their passion to solve other medical issues.

Quite an insight to switch from cancer therapy to COVID-19 vaccine, and quite the opportunity to be able to deploy 500 researchers onto it at such an early stage.

I hope this bolsters their original search for cancer treatment.

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Quite an insight to switch from cancer therapy to COVID-19 vaccine

Actually not at all. BioNTech's entire platform was customized RNA therapeutics that target the immune system to a particular patient's tumor. Basically cancer vaccines.