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How China Passed Up a Vaccine Opportunity and Fell Behind – BloombergQuint
How China Passed Up a Vaccine Opportunity and Fell Behind
(Bloomberg) — The call came early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Drew Weissman, an infectious diseases professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in messenger RNA, received a query from a Chinese company interested in using the new technology to make a vaccine against the coronavirus.
mRNA, which effectively turns the bodys cells into tiny vaccine-making factories, has since become the breakout star of the Covid era, underpinning shots made by Moderna Inc. and the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech…
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