Heartening news but extremely important to note, before getting too excited, this has only been tested in mice with a mouse-specific virus so we need to hold our horses, even though if this is proven effective in humans with human viruses that will be fucking awesome.
"Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised."
These headlines along with no followup headline of "it turns out this doesn't work with humans/work on a large scale" creates the "(Blank) Industry is keeping down this innovation" conspiracy theories, so the caveat is both good and important.
Exactly, this is still very cool! It's promising to see this line of research, and I look forward to seeing more about it as it continues. Science rules
It's important that we have realistic expectations! Overreacting to these things and the never seeing results is how distrust in science grows. Incremental advancement is just as exciting and interesting!!
Yeah, the whole "any strain of virus" thing is mega early-stage promotional text (aka "we haven't actually tested out this theory yet" )
But agreed, encouraging af.
Still probably a decade off from roll-out.
