Work published by Prof Anne Willis and Dr James Thaventhiran, alongside collaborators in Kent, Oxford and Liverpool, describing how mRNA therapeutics may cause an unintended immune response and need fine-tuning for the future was reported across multiple national and international media outlets.
You can read the Unit's news article and/or the paper, published in Nature, for more details. Example of coverage can be found below:
Michelle Roberts, BBC COVID study: mRNA vaccines could be fine-tuned
Fergus Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Listen at 25:25 to this clip from the 6 o'clock News
Joe Pinkstone, The Telegraph One in four who had Pfizer Covid jabs experienced unintended immune response
Gretchen Vogel, Science Magazine mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence of harm
Edda Grabar, Die Welt Die Corona-Impfung und die Proteine
Laura Simmons, IFLScience Why Are People Talking About A Redesign Of The COVID-19 Vaccines?
The researchers also wrote an article about the study for The Conversation. mRNA COVID vaccines make ‘unintended proteins’ – we’ve discovered how to fix this problem
University of Cambridge story: Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses
UKRI story: Redesigning future mRNA therapeutics