According to Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, mankind may be on the verge of a new era in medicine.
A Nobel laureate, Doudna, known primarily for Crispr gene-editing for the human genome, said that medicine in entering “an extraordinary time of accelerating discoveries” due to the introduction of mRNA vaccines.
Beyond Covid vaccines, she said that there are countless potential applications of mRNA tools for other diseases.
She said that mRNA tools offer a new frontier for immunotherapy and next-generation cancer treatments.
The new vaccines have been heralded as game-changing for some of the world’s most intractable infectious diseases.
“You cannot imagine what you’re going to see over the next 30 years,” she said. “The pace of advancement is in an exponential phase right
