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>Seems incredible now the University of Pennsylvania told the inventor mRNA that their contributions weren't worthwhile and let them go. Incredible from common
by gambler 6y ago
>Seems incredible now the University of Pennsylvania told the inventor mRNA that their contributions weren't worthwhile and let them go.
Incredible from common sense perspective, but totally expected if you know how American academia operates these days.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoI don't think it was common sense 30 years ago that this technology would eventually pay off. I imagine things looked pretty grim for the first 24 years the university employed her to work on it with little commercial traction, and the technology was only finally demonstrated due to a freak global pandemic 7 years after that.