BioNTech wants to ‘eradicate’ malaria with mRNA vaccine
27 July 2021 |
2:02 pm
After developing a coronavirus vaccine in record time, the German pharmaceutical company aims to start trialing a malaria shot next year using the same breakthrough mRNA technology.
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