BioNTech, the company behind one of the Covid-19 vaccines, has agreed to acquire a U.S. manufacturing plant from a unit of Gilead Sciences in a deal aimed at strengthening its core business of developing cutting-edge cancer therapies
for use in the U.S. and Europe. But its main focus before the pandemic had been developing personalized cancer therapies that harness the body’s own immune system.
Among the approaches it was investigating were so-called mRNA vaccines aimed at training the body’s immune system to fight tumors. These vaccines are based on genetic material containing the instructions for key proteins linked to the virus or cancer cell in question.to aim that technology at the new virus. The resulting vaccine was developed at breakneck speed and became its first, and so far only, authorized product.
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