Activists overthrow the advance of the biotechnology of mRNA with political power

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Washington – MRNA, a winning technology of the Nobel Prize, operated by Trump officials to create plans with record time, becomes a political rejection while the leaders of the nation openly embrace the skepticism of the vaccines.

Republican legislators and federal health officials elected the Messenger RNA, a basic element of biology that proven its value during the cocvidAnd this is promising to fight against the next pandemic and unlock new treatments against cancer. Public health experts and biotechnology companies watch the government with horror reduces its investments in technology, and as officials like the health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Wednesday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services confirmed that it had canceled more than $ 700 million in contracts With Moderna to develop, test and dismiss the mRNA vaccines for influenza strains that could cause future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.

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