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What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?

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The Advantages of Lipid Nanoparticles Over RNA

With both types of these platforms, we can be extremely nimble in terms of making new vaccines because all we need is the genetic code. And I think a great example of that was COVID, right? SARS-CoV-2, we knew the sequence probably the very end of December 1st of January. There was vaccine viled within three weeks of mRNA vaccine. With adenovectored viruses, you have to make that DNA code, insert that into the virus and make sure that the virus can tolerate it. That might take a little bit longer as you have to then grow up that virus or get enough of that virus with the DNA code for the SARS-

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