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TED Radio Hour

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Shipping RNA Vaccines

Katherine Whitehead is a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Her job is figuring out how to safely transport the very fragile mRNA vaccine when it's introduced to our bodies after a shot. In a minute, we'll see what she and other scientists have developed to get that mRNA delivered safely. It's kind of like packing peanuts, but on a cellular level.

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