Health
Federal funding injection gets UQ mRNA vaccine facility moving – Brisbane Times
UQ will join the frontline push to create new mRNA vaccines thanks to a federal funding injection to establish a custom facility to create and test new vaccines….
[This technology] has been around for about 10-to-15 years, maybe a little longer, but its been during the pandemic that it really came into its own, the safety profile and effectiveness has really become apparent, he said.
That speaks to the ability of the technology to be very flexible. For example if you want to redesign an mRNA vaccine against a new COVID variant, all you have to do is change the RNA sequence, which greatly speeds up development time.
The federal funding has been allocated through…
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