Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. BioNTech Publishes Data on Novel mRNA Vaccine Approach to Treat Autoimmune Diseases in Science BioNTech SEJanuary 7, 2021 GMT Collaborative study of BioNTech with TRON and the University Medical Center and Research Center for Immunotherapy at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz introduces novel non-inflammatory mRNA vaccine encoding disease-related autoantigens that suppressed disease activity in several complex mouse models of multiple sclerosis Approach addresses key pitfalls in the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as the induction of systemic immune suppression Approach can easily be tailored to individual disease-causing antigens of patients and confers bystander tolerance to address highly complex, polyclonal and rare autoimmune disease types