Dr Paul Burton, chief medical officer of pharmaceutical company Moderna - which made a leading COVID jab - said genetic mutations could be 'edited out' and repaired using ground-breaking new technology set to be ready by the end of the decade.
To vaccinate someone against cancer, doctors begin by taking a biopsy of the patient's tumour before genetic sequencing is used to identify mutations.An algorithm identifies which mutations are causing the growth of the cancer and could trigger the immune system.A molecule of mRNA is produced with instructions to make antigens which cause an immune response.
The mRNA, once injected, is translated into proteins identical to those found on tumour cells. Immune cells then collide with and destroy cancer cells carrying the same proteins. Dr Burton added:"I think what we have learned in recent months is that if you ever thought that mRNA was just for infectious diseases, or just for COVID, the evidence now is that that's absolutely not the case.
"It can be applied to all sorts of disease areas; we are in cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, rare disease.
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