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Sure, and that website I made in 24 hours was only possible because of DARPA's funding of the first Internet and decades of efforts into programming languages,
by megaman821 6y ago
Sure, and that website I made in 24 hours was only possible because of DARPA's funding of the first Internet and decades of efforts into programming languages, etc.
The point being, if a novel deadly virus was discovered tomorrow, how fast could Moderna develop a potential vaccine?
- iskander 6y agoIt depends complete on what kind of virus it is. All of the interesting research required to hit "print" on mRNA-1273 was already done in MERS. It would have been surprising if the vaccine didn't work. If a new pandemic emerges from a less well understood family of viruses for which we don't have any good preclinical vaccines, it could still take decades. Sticking the genome into synthetic mRNA isn't the rate limiting step, it's knowing to target the spike protein, inserting the stabilizing proline mutations, &c and also having experience getting safe and protective responses from a similar vaccine for a related virus.
- tinus_hn 6y agoNot to mention politics, if the disease wasn’t as big as COVID they’d have to wait for years for approval.