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How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

A Washington Post video (duration 6’16”) – December 8, 2020
How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

Our RNA scientists, Alice Telesnitsky, Microbiology and Immunology, and Nils G. Walter, Chemistry, Biophysics & Biological Chemistry and co-director of the Center for RNA Biomedicine, explain how RNA research allows to save millions of lives with an RNA vaccine, and why it is possible to have a vaccine so quickly.

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