What if mRNA could be a drug? | Stephane Bancel | TEDxBeaconStreet

Biology dogma: DNA -- mRNA -- proteins. The biotech industry has made wonders for patients in the last 30 years making recombinant proteins, like EPO and insulin. What if mRNA could be a drug and the body could make its own missing proteins on demand?

Stephane Bancel is the founding CEO of moderna Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA.

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[rattemithelm]

funny how this became so relevant now with COVID

[grapecrush]

My favorite part is where he says: The problem is, you can't shut it off!!

[jackieboyle]

Medical Science has made such progress, that there is hardly a healthy human left

[luxlove]

who's here right before the covid vaccines ...

[amjedabdeljelil]

When I watch presentation like this one makes think that all our sicknesses and diseases are disappearing, but when I look to what's happening to human health is actually deteriorating, it seems like the more treatment we find the more diseases we have..

[Deron]

I'm just here to watch the girl fall asleep starting at 5:15 mark. Not only did this lecture pre-date COVID, it pre-dated ASMR.

[adriennenicole]

Moral of the story.. Watch more TED TALKS for the future of the world...

[football]

The answer is yes. And the way it works on your immune system is similar to the way that opiate withdrawal works (funny, big pharma there too). When it wears off after a few months, your immunity will be even lower than your normal baseline. Then you have to "boost" it back up, but after that wanes, it will drop negative even further. You will be left constantly re-upping to achieve a weaker effect each time you are chasing that high, but instead of a high, it is immunity.

Drug addiction.

[bitsanbobs]

The heart bit. Is this why people get an enlarged heart after the moderna vaccine

[JaiShreeKanha]

7 years ago :-- Can MRNA be a drug.
2021 :-- it already has become a drug.

[dskywalker]

This person needs to be held accountable.

[fasiah]

Who were the “few of us” who met to discuss mrna as a drug? That’s what I want to know.

[dibaldgyfm]

In the comments You should add credits for the transcribe who has done a good job making understandable what Stephane Bancél says.

[helvihellion]

Mix a bit of graphene oxide and there you go!

[doubletrouble]

I just got it ... Moderna company name is derived from mRNA. Duh !

[antisociety_movement]

This guy works for Moderna! We’re watching real drug dealers at work.. People in prison have nothing on these guy’s

[catherineanderson]

I’d like to know how the monkeys are doing 5 years from the mRNA trials, but now we have humans with this insane idea being the genie pigs. Scary.

[hugoperez]

What is the hand that’s moving all the strings?

In one side you have this technology coming to a final stage of development in the other side you have the current pandemic, both perfectly synchronized.

[mikedaniels]

Those who had eyes to see and ears to hear, read the tealeaves and bought MRNA stock AFTER this video are now millionaires.

[donalddahs]

9 years later: why is mRNA VEGF not already used after heart attacks? What went wrong?