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Co-opting the normal synthetic machinery of the body. >> thats right, the power of asking for help. >> reporter: other research might help the tiniest among us. while nursing her infant daughter five years ago. >> i started trying to learn like what is in this breast milk. >> whitehead envisioned using mrna to program breast cells to produce specific proteins. so it would be a way of non- invasively delivering therapeutics to an infant. it is amazing technology. >> reporter: technology that coul...

Trojan horse. >> the cell says i recognize you, you are fatty, im fatty. >> come on inside. >> thats right. >> the mrna tells the cell to make a protein that triggers an immune response to the coronavirus. so the body recognizes the virus if it ever shows up. other mrna vaccines against malaria and h.i.v. are in the works and scientists hope the same technology can teach the body to make its own treatment for a wide range of diseases. >> because many diseases are caused by proteins that arent wo...