New Type of “Self-Amplifying” RNA Could Revolutionize Cancer Treatments

An accidental discovery turned into an unexpected success when a team of interdisciplinary BU researchers created a new and improved COVID vaccine. It all started in the lab. Two Boston University doctoral students, Joshua McGee (ENG’26) and Jack Kirsch (ENG’23), were creating and testing different types of RNA—strands of ribonucleic acid, built from chains of [...]