{"id":127672,"date":"2021-09-14T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-tangled-history-of-mrna-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-09-14T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T02:22:56","slug":"the-tangled-history-of-mrna-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-tangled-history-of-mrna-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"The tangled history of mRNA vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-tangled-history-of-mrna-vaccines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story illuminates the way that many scientific discoveries become life-changing innovations: with decades of dead ends, rejections and battles over potential profits, but also generosity, curiosity and dogged persistence against scepticism and doubt. \u201cIt\u2019s a long series of steps,\u201d says Paul Krieg, a developmental biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who made his own contribution in the mid-1980s, \u201cand you never know what\u2019s going to be useful\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hundreds of scientists had worked on mRNA vaccines for decades before the coronavirus pandemic brought a breakthrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story illuminates the way that many scientific discoveries become life-changing innovations: with decades of dead ends, rejections and battles over potential profits, but also generosity, curiosity and dogged persistence against scepticism and doubt. \u201cIt\u2019s a long series of steps,\u201d says Paul Krieg, a developmental biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127672","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}