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Open Source with Christopher Lydon
December 10, 2020
The mRNA Story
mRNA is the bright spark in a disaster year still darkening under the surge of COVID deaths and new cases. mRNA is the messenger molecule with news of help on the way. It’s described as fast, fragile, unstable, short-lived, compared to DNA, but it delivers the code that makes the protein that animates every cell of life on earth. And now it’s been given a therapeutic mission. For cells under attack by a virus, it turns out mRNA has a way of delivering repair instructions and cranking up a flood of good information in a vulnerable body.