Moderna and AstraZeneca are collaborating on a regenerative treatment for heart disease, comprising injecting mRNA encoding the VEGF protein into the diseased heart muscle.
“ Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a signalling protein that promotes the growth of new blood vessels. VEGF forms part of the mechanism that restores the blood supply to cells and tissues when they are deprived of oxygenated blood due to compromised blood circulation.”
It might be just far enough along that it could help, unlike Zebrafish genes/proteins. In late 2020 ( see the following link, section 6, lower part of page 7) they were still enrolling patients in phase 2a “safety and efficacy”.
Long shot that this is useful, but OTOH mRNA therapeutics are a revolutionary new modality. And no, mRNA doesn’t change your DNA, unless you have a lot of other stuff going on such as a retrovirus infection. IMO using it to save lives, isn’t playing God, it is using what God gave us.
In before the haters and biology Kruger-Dunning know-it-alls.
https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/cells/cells-10-00187/article_deploy/cells-10-00187-v2.pdf%E2%80%9D