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Relevant recent discussion: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359269 https

• ethbr0 5y ago
  mRNA technology will never go anywhere or develop anything useful. ;) This is a prime example of wasteful government spending, when a free market could have better allocated investment!
  • trynumber9 5y ago
    what an interesting take. traditional capital invested in Moderna's mRNA research too. https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-40-million-financing-advance-development-new https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
    • nafizh 5y ago
      I think it was sarcasm.
  • bassman9000 5y ago
    A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project. This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer. Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one executing are not the same.
    • bregma 5y ago
      OK. Insulin, then. Some academics got to play with puppy dogs and get paid by the public purse, then then went and donated their patents to a non-profit. What a waste!