Tiffany O’Callaghan

@tocallaghan.bsky.social

Managing Editor, Doctors.net.uk

Even if mRNA vaccine technology was limited to making vaccines, it would be crazy for the US not to fund further research into it But the technology is not limited to vaccines, as vital as they are. There's so much more that could be done with it www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology

It's not a just a revolutionary and safe vaccine technology – mRNA could help make the best and most expensive drugs in the world affordable for everyone

newscientist.com

I'm going to tell you a little story about how the sausage of science journalism is made. You may already know that the big journals - Nature, Science and so on - provide reporters with embargoed copies of papers before they are published. But what exactly does that mean?