These three medical innovations ushered in by Covid-19 will survive the pandemic’s end
Researchers working on gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain their work.
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A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of Covid-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery explain how their work rose to the challenge of the pandemic, and their hopes that each technology is now poised to continue making big changes in medicine.
Genetic vaccines
Deborah Fuller, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington.