It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
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#2The technology was years in the making. DARPA was also involved.
“In October 2013, DARPA awarded Moderna up to approximately $25 million to research and develop potential mRNA medicines as a part of DARPA’s Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics, or ADEPT, program”
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#3The great thing is that the next time this happens, a vaccine can be created equally quickly.
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#4The great thing is that the next time this happens, a vaccine can be created equally quickly.
Maybe... depends on the virus. This won’t work for things like HIV or rapidly mutating viruses. It will probably work for any relative coronaviruses
Re: It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
#5The technology was years in the making. DARPA was also involved. “In October 2013, DARPA awarded Moderna up to approximately $25 million to research and develop potential mRNA medicines as a part of DARPA’s Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics, or ADEPT, program”
One of the best $25 million in defense spending ever.
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#6I wonder if any, or if many, Moderna employees have been walking around off-the-books immunized since January. I know I would've been tempted.
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#7The great thing is that the next time this happens, a vaccine can be created equally quickly.
Yes but if they don't do phase 1/2 safety trials ahead of time we will still have the months-long regulatory wait.
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#8I could write Twitter in a weekend.
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#10The technology was years in the making. DARPA was also involved. “In October 2013, DARPA awarded Moderna up to approximately $25 million to research and develop potential mRNA medicines as a part of DARPA’s Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics, or ADEPT, program”
But it is very interesting that mRNA vaccines can be very quickly developed for new viruses. The underlying technology may have taken years, but it can be applied to new viruses as soon as the virus is sequenced.