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	Podcast:		TED Talks Daily
	Episode:		The breakthrough science of mRNA medicine \| Melissa J. Moore
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:18:00
	Publish Date:		2022-04-27 14:53:12
	Description:		The secret behind medicines that use messenger RNA (or mRNA) is that they "teach" our bodies how to fight diseases on their own, leading to groundbreaking treatments for COVID-19 and, potentially one day, cancer, the flu and other ailments that have haunted humanity for millennia. RNA researcher Melissa J. Moore -- Moderna's chief scientific officer and one of the many people responsible for the rapid creation and deployment of their COVID-19 vaccine -- takes us down to the molecular level, unraveling how mRNA helps our bodies' proteins maintain health, prevent disease and correct errors in our genetic code. "We have entered an entirely new era of medicine," Moore says.
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