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> Derrick Rossi doesn’t quite see it this way, but he kind of saved the world. > > In 2008, he began researching messenger RNA (mRNA), building on the long-igno
by alcuadrado 5y ago
> Derrick Rossi doesn’t quite see it this way, but he kind of saved the world.
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> In 2008, he began researching messenger RNA (mRNA), building on the long-ignored work of Hungarian researcher Katalin Karikó
What?! Katalin Karikó is an SVP at BioNTech, the lab that created Pfizer's vaccine.
- jonstewart 5y agoYes, and... she was long ignored before that. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-k...