🧑‍⚕️ With health & science initiatives and funding under attack in the United States, it’s important to always consider the capabilities of mRNA. The rest of the world will move forward into this frontier research—therefore, it will continue.

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has railed against mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, making false claims about their safety and efficacy. In August, Kennedy unilaterally canceled $500 million in grant funding for the development of mRNA-based vaccines against diseases that pose pandemic threats.

Moderna and Merck’s personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, when combined with Keytruda, maintained a 49% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death for high-risk melanoma patients after five years of follow-up.

In a small clinical trial, customized mRNA vaccines against high-risk skin cancers appeared to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence and death by nearly 50 percent over five years when compared with standard treatment alone."

🩺 This medical development is highly worth a read from The Verge. As mRNA brought society through the worst of the COVID pandemic, the breakthroughs are still quite in its infancy and has a lot of upside from here.