The Breakthrough Science of mRNA Medicine Will Change the World Melissa J. Moore - TED2022
go to original April 29, 2022

The secret behind medicine that uses messenger RNA (or mRNA) is that it "teaches" our bodies how to fight diseases on our 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.

As chief scientific officer at Moderna, Melissa J. Moore is making medicines from messenger RNA, including the COVID vaccines that are saving millions of lives.