We take a look at the history of mRNA, and the story behind the development of mRNA vaccines and how they’ve been pressed into service at breakneck speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S3.05 - Poop, pus and the Manhattan Project: How we learned to spell the genetic alphabet
The genetic code of DNA is written in just four ‘letters’ - A (adenine), C (cytosine), T (thymine) and G (guanine). But where did those strange-sounding names come from?