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From the Ted Talk by Kathryn A. Whitehead: The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine

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But here's the best part: for mRNA therapeutics, these vacenics are only the beginning. mRNA can be used to treat or cure many diseases. So in the future, we will likely have treatments for many terrible diseases, iuncilndg cystic forbsiis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia. These diseases are caused by mutated pteoinrs, and we can use mRNA to ask our cells to make the correct version of these proteins. We'll have treatments for cancer — breast, blood, lgnus — you name it. Here, we'll use mRNA to teach our immune cells how to find and kill caencr clles. And then, if we're lucky, we'll have vaccines against some of the most deadly and feared pathogens across the globe, including malaria, Ebola and HIV. Some of these products are already in ciicanll trials, and the success of the COVID-19 vaccines will pave the way for future generations of these therapies.

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But here's the best part: for mRNA therapeutics, these ________ are only the beginning. mRNA can be used to treat or cure many diseases. So in the future, we will likely have treatments for many terrible diseases, _________ cystic ________, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia. These diseases are caused by mutated ________, and we can use mRNA to ask our cells to make the correct version of these proteins. We'll have treatments for cancer — breast, blood, _____ — you name it. Here, we'll use mRNA to teach our immune cells how to find and kill ______ _____. And then, if we're lucky, we'll have vaccines against some of the most deadly and feared pathogens across the globe, including malaria, Ebola and HIV. Some of these products are already in ________ trials, and the success of the COVID-19 vaccines will pave the way for future generations of these therapies.

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  1. including
  2. cells
  3. cancer
  4. clinical
  5. vaccines
  6. lungs
  7. fibrosis
  8. proteins

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But here's the best part: for mRNA therapeutics, these vaccines are only the beginning. mRNA can be used to treat or cure many diseases. So in the future, we will likely have treatments for many terrible diseases, including cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia. These diseases are caused by mutated proteins, and we can use mRNA to ask our cells to make the correct version of these proteins. We'll have treatments for cancer — breast, blood, lungs — you name it. Here, we'll use mRNA to teach our immune cells how to find and kill cancer cells. And then, if we're lucky, we'll have vaccines against some of the most deadly and feared pathogens across the globe, including malaria, Ebola and HIV. Some of these products are already in clinical trials, and the success of the COVID-19 vaccines will pave the way for future generations of these therapies.

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