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welcome to the cotkey ride home for mond, March 1st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

How the RNA-based platform used for some of the COVID-19 vaccines is already changing the game for other diseases.

Plus, I Got Vaccinated stickers and selfie stations are starting to pop up, and an app that's

bringing back the disposable camera without the disposable camera.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

All right, so especially with news of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine rolling out in the U.S. this

week, you've probably been reminded of one way that this one differs from the Moderna and Pfizer

vaccines already being distributed throughout the country. The Johnson and Johnson one makes use

of viral vector technology that's been used in vaccines and other medical interventions

for decades. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, by contrast, use messenger RNA or MRNA, and are

the first vaccines approved for use in humans to do so. Now, scientists have been working on

MRNA technology for vaccines for a couple of decades, but there's

been a number of hurdles to overcome both scientific and funding related.

Now, with multiple vaccines as a proof of concept, some are hopeful that we'll see the technology

applied for other diseases. And we may be close to our first one. Researchers have published a patent for a

malaria vaccine that uses an RNA-based platform. It hasn't yet been tested on humans, but Richard

Bukala of Yale School of Medicine and co-inventor of the vaccine said, quote, it's probably

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