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NEW DELHI: When governments, universities and investors gave up on mRNA technology years ago, Katalin Kariko hung on. The biochemist, who moved from Hungary to the US in the 1980s, has done more to prove mRNA’s worth than anyone else. She told Stephen Buranyi of Wired in March she had always believed mRNA could fix anything, “whatever it was, a disease, baldness even.”
The Covid pandemic gave Kariko and other mRNA believers the first opportunity to demonstrate its powers to the public. Chinese scientists published the Covid virus’s genetic sequence on January 11, 2020, and “Moderna’s mRNA vaccine recipe was finalised in about 48 hours,” Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic. By late-February, it was ready for clinical trials.
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The new technology was not only lightning fast but also incredibly effective - mRNA Covid vaccines from both Moderna and Pfizer hit the bull s-eye in terms of efficacy. But what s the future of this technology, will it be used to fight other diseases after the pandemic?
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