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		liquidify on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BioNTech CEO applies Covid-19 vaccine's mRNA tech ... Headline is a bit funky calling it "Covid-19 vaccine's tech", since this tech has been studied and tested for many other applications. It seems backwards... Covid-19 vaccine is an instance of this technology, the technology is not a derivative of what they did in Covid-19 vaccine.

baq on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

Casually backwards but the audience can relate better this way.

usrusr on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

Well, Covid is what made the technologies breach the apply to humans threshold. Could have taken ages otherwise, because the testing procedures create quite a bit of conservative bias (and I don't blame them)

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