Ugur Shahin and Lake Tyudzhe, the Sobocundants of the German company Biontech, said that the technology of MRNA underlying their Covid vaccines can be reprogrammed so that it forces the immune system to attack cancer cells, Russian media write.
According to Shakhin, drugs of this action can be available before 2030.
MRNA vaccine transfers genetic markers to harmless spikes of coronavirus, which then adopt cells that produce spike protein. The antibodies of the immune system react to these marks and attack them. The same approach can be used to force the immune system to search and destroy cancer cells. Only instead of a code for viruses, it is necessary to introduce markers for cancer antigens.
BIONTECH began work on anti -cancer vaccines based on MRNA before the pandemic has begun. But because of the threat of coronavirus, she switched to the production of vaccines against him.
TUREDZHIA said that the company already has several vaccines that are now undergoing clinical trials.