Apropos of nothing, I’m old enough to remember there was a lot of excitement about mRNA as a potential vaccine technology way back in the early 90’s. The potential was immediately obvious to anyone who looked at it, but then it seemed to drop off of the radar (and only now, in the heat of this Wuhan Flu season did I bother to learn why.)
For sure Katalin Karikó should get the Nobel prize for this, just based on the current vaccines. The potential for really astonishing things is still there, and are now within reach.
The current political environment is obscuring what will be seen as a major advance in medical technology. Maybe 2020 wasn’t a complete bust after all.
-I’m old enough to remember there was a lot of excitement about mRNA as a potential vaccine technology way back in the early 90’s. -
Don’t know anything about the 90s, but as far as I can, a lot of the thinking about the mRNA vaccine (or its invention) for these varieties of covids was a product of the Obama covid of 2012 which used up all of the governments ventilators & stuff (never restocked). All that was necessary to make the vaccine was the genetic information of Covid 19.