Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks
February 4, 2024 | Source: NTD News | by Zachary Stieber
The technology used in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine carries toxicity risks, scientists with the company said in a new paper.
“A major challenge now is how to efficiently de-risk potential toxicities associated with mRNA technology,” the scientists wrote.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 shots use modified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. The mRNA is delivered by lipid nanoparticles (LNP).
The toxicity risks include “lipid nanoparticle structural components, production methods, route of administration and proteins produced from complexed mRNAs,” the authors of the paper said.
Authors of the paper include Eric Jacquinet and Dimitrios Bitounis, Moderna employees, and Maximillian Rogers, who was working at Moderna when the paper was being done.
The paper was published by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery on Jan. 23.
Moderna did not respond to a request for comment.