You've met Moderna, BioNTech and Curevac. Now meet Kernal Bio, the startup working on mRNA 2.0

Messenger RNA (mRNA) candidates are among the front-runners in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, with Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech tandem each planning to seek an emergency approval later this year. But vaccination is just the tip of the iceberg for mRNA technologies, which Yusuf Erkul, M.D., thinks could be more useful as treatments for cancer, COVID-19 and beyond.