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mRNA Vaccine Science (stanmed.stanford.edu)
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[-] shanghaibebop@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is amazing! Hopefully drive down the insane cost of biologics as well.

[-] wjs018@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

It hopefully should. One of the main reasons biologics are so expensive isn't just corporate greed (though it is that too), but because the manufacturing process is very intense. Running bioreactors at commercial scale to make your product, using a train of chromatography steps to purify it, and then filtering it to be concentrated and sterile before fill/finish in a pre-filled syringe or vial followed sometimes by lyophilization is an insanely complicated process that is very costly. mRNA processes simplify this a lot in that the mRNA don't need to be manufactured using bioreactors that are filled with dirty cellular flotsam and jetsam that need removed. So, the production and purification parts are much much simpler. It still isn't likely to be cheap, as GMP manufacturing is still complex and the fill/finish part of the operations are largely unchanged, but hopefully cheaper.

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