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Both are based on the work of one scientist Katalin Karikó She had a pretty tough time getting her work accepted at the time - no one would fund it, she got de
by jonplackett 5y ago
Both are based on the work of one scientist Katalin Karikó
She had a pretty tough time getting her work accepted at the time - no one would fund it, she got demoted, everyone said it wouldn’t work etc - as is the way with all genuinely new ideas!
This is a really good write up - her story starts about half way in.
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-...
- eliaspro 5y agoIt actually goes back even further to Ingmar Hoerr (who went on to found CureVac, producing now a temperature stable SARS-COV2 vaccine) who accidentally discovered that RNA can be stabilized using liposomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Hoerr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Hoerr https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/curevac-gruender-und-mrna-pionier-ingmar-hoerr-im-nzz-interview-ld.1602797 https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/curevac-gruender-und-mrna-pion...