I really don't trust Boston Magazine for such a thing, but I hadn't heard of this and found it interesting. Does Moderna Therapeutics Have the NEXT Next Big Thing in Medicine? "At 12:01 a.m., the company’s PR firm sent a press release to media and investors over the PR Newswire, announcing triumphantly that Moderna was on the verge of ‘adding an entirely new drug category to the pharmaceutical arsenal in the fight against important diseases.’ What the company had been so quietly pioneering was a fundamentally new form of drug delivery—one that would allow for the targeted production of medicine inside the human body.
It was a startling idea. Moderna claimed to have figured out a way of instructing specific cells to manufacture drugs on demand. The company said it had completed extensive preclinical trials, including a successful trial in nonhuman primates. Still to come was the final frontier: clinical trials in humans. If they proved successful, Moderna declared, it would be able to slash the rate of drug discovery from years to mere weeks, and treat dozens of diseases for which currently there were no drugs. The practice of medicine, and the pharmaceutical business, would be changed forever."
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This all unproven science. Based on Glassdoor review of Moderna former and current employee, possibly data manipulations. See https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/140360cbbf9bbc17
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