The BioNTech founders, responsible for the lifesaving Covid vaccine, are now back with new discoveries to destroy cancer cells, news.sky inform.

While scientists are tentative about using the term “cure”, the cancer vaccine in progress may have the potential to significantly treat and fight cancer cells.

Professor Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, have found new “breakthroughs” in treating cancer cells, which they attribute to their earlier work on the COVID vaccine.

The duo previously worked together to pioneer cancer immunotherapies tailored to individual patients, having co-founded BioNTech together in Mainz, Germany, in 2008.

The husband-and-wife team, who successfully developed the Pfizer vaccine, have said their progress during the pandemic on the use of mRNA technology “gives back to our cancer work”.

This functions in a similar way once injected into the body, allowing the body to produce antigens and build up the immune system against the disease.