Vaccine research was hardly exciting science and had long taken a back seat to efforts to cure cancer and heart disease. Clinton was going to give a commencement address at Morgan State University in Baltimore and wanted to announce the vaccine research center. A pipe dreamIn the 1950s, the molecule at the heart of the mRNA vaccines was cloaked in mystery. An mRNA vaccine would instead carry instructions — encoded in mRNA — that would allow the body’s cells to pump out their own viral proteins. By November, the first results were in from the trial of Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2022 15:37 UTC