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		_joel on April 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) RNA therapies are being used to to target tumors, the next few years should be very interesting in this field. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075333222...

lofi_lory on April 21, 2021 [–]

I wonder, if mRNA tech offers the possibility of reintroducing lost of function for cells with mutations like p53 defects. E.g. maybe just do what p53 does, if it's present or not.

Much harder to identify the misbehaving cells, DNA deletions, than making all cells behave, I assume.

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