
Coronapod: The rise of RNA vaccines
Nature Podcast
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R N a Vaccines Have Had This Big Boost Because of This Necessity
World events can change research parities and som we certainly talked about a lot on coronipod so far. And these r n a vaccines have had this big boost because of this necessity. The basic idea is that instead of delivering a bit of the virus or the whole virus to the body, you actually just give it the arina recipe for making the protein that you want the immune system to recognize and destroy. It could best be seen by the fact that madurna, going back to january 20 20, now, about a year ago, they were able to design, synthesize and manufacture a vaxin candidate in days,. literally four days.
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