The scientists say they have had “breakthroughs” they will keep working on.
could be accessed by patients within the next decade according to the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful Covid jabs.
German couple Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci said they are hesitant to say they can find a cure for cancer, but that they have had “breakthroughs” they will keep working on.against Covid-19 which became widely rolled out in the pandemic “gives back to our cancer work”. They co-founded BioNTech in Mainz, Germany, in 2008, and worked to pioneer cancer immunotherapies tailored to individual patients.
Their use of mRNA technology came into its own in the pandemic, and the couple said that experience has helped to spur on their work. While conventional vaccines are produced using weakened forms of a virus, mRNAs use only a virus’s genetic code.An mRNA vaccine is injected into the body, where it enters cells and tells them to create antigens which are then recognised by the immune system and prepare it to fight the disease.The couple were interviewed on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.
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