The story behind Moderna’s Covid vaccine
The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine and the Business Gamble that Changed the World by Peter Loftus is the story of how an obscure little biotech startup took a huge leap to take on the Covid pandemic and became a household name around the world.
mRNA technology was a disruptive idea, but it had remained untested. It is based on the fact that the messenger RNA, a synthetic version of ribonucleic acid, contains enough information to get inside cells and trigger certain proteins.
mRNA technology was a disruptive idea, but it had remained untested. It is based on the fact that the messenger RNA, a synthetic version of ribonucleic acid, contains enough information to get inside cells and trigger certain proteins.