Transformative Patient Care Begins in the Lab
Hai-Quan Mao and his collaborators at Johns Hopkins conduct NIH-funded materials science research using mRNA and other advances to address urgent medical challenges like cancer, malaria, and nerve and tissue damage RNA medicine shows promise for training the body to recognize tumors and eliminate them, but a better delivery system is needed to activate the immune cells within the body and generate an anti-tumor response. With backing from the...