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(Reuters) - The success of COVID-19 vaccines based on messenger RNA (mRNA) is smoothing the way for using the novel technology not only in other vaccines, but possibly as treatments for cystic fibrosis, cancer and other hard-to-treat diseases.
FILE PHOTO: A scientist conducts research on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the laboratories of RNA medicines company Arcturus Therapeutics in San Diego, California, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo
Scientists say mRNA has the potential to target diseases that cannot be reached by conventional drugs.
U.S. emergency authorization of the vaccines - one from Moderna Inc and another from partners Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE – and their gene-based manufacturing processes has shown that the Food and Drug Administration is open to broader use of the previously unproven technology, according to interviews with eight top experts in the field of mRNA.
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Asian American data more likely to be missing or misclassified
In April 2020, Islam and her community health worker team conducted a COVID-19 needs assessment of New York City’s South Asian communities. Of the 200 people they reached and surveyed, she said, close to 40% knew a close friend or family member who had died from the virus.
Stella Yi, an assistant professor at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, said New York City’s Health Department released race-specific data on April 8, 2020. But it just wasn’t adding up with the community-level reports from throughout the city, she said.
Stella S. Yi is a professor at NYU’s School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. (Courtesy of Stella Yi)