{"id":111180,"date":"2020-08-12T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-has-been-working-on-an-rna-bioreactor"},"modified":"2020-08-12T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:42:59","slug":"tesla-has-been-working-on-an-rna-bioreactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-has-been-working-on-an-rna-bioreactor","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Has Been Working On an RNA Bioreactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-has-been-working-on-an-rna-bioreactor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla and CureVac have collaborated on a patent for an RNA bioreactor.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are no human vaccines made with RNA, the technology could break through on COVID-19 (coronavirus).<\/p>\n<p>The bioreactor works by combining chemical agents in an egg-shaped magnetic mixer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tesla has taken on the manufacturing role for a biotech startup with a revolutionary new RNA reactor concept. A tipster recently alerted Electrek to this year-old patent application, which lists both Tesla and German startup CureVac.<\/p>\n<p>CureVac has made the news recently because of a misinformed factoid that it was being purchased by President Donald Trump. That\u2019s partly because CureVac is working on the groundwork for a COVID-19 (coronavirus) vaccine. Today, the European Investment Bank (EIB) reported that it\u2019s awarded an $84 million loan to CureVac to accelerate that vaccine development process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla and CureVac have collaborated on a patent for an RNA bioreactor. Although there are no human vaccines made with RNA, the technology could break through on COVID-19 (coronavirus). The bioreactor works by combining chemical agents in an egg-shaped magnetic mixer. Tesla has taken on the manufacturing role for a biotech startup with a revolutionary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}