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Part II with Fabrice Delaye, author of The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNA. This time, we'll dive into some of the different turn of events in biotech space and some of the key scientists that moved this discovery of mRNA towards a whole new level in vaccines.****It is commonly believed that a COVID-19 vaccine was developed in just ten months, but few people are aware of the decades of frustration that preceded this breakthrough. Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which utilizes molecules that instruct cells to create a viral protein, had been in development for thirty years before it finally came to fruition. This technology is now considered to be as revolutionary as putting a man on the moon, according to Nobel Prize winner Thomas Cech. In his book, The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNA, science journalist Fabrice Delaye tells the story of how mRNA