The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race

Scientists have dreamed about the possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA. The pandemic may turn those possibilities into realilty.

Note: Katalin Karikó had an uphill battle trying to attract funding for her mRNA research. She struggled to secure grants, attract corporate funding, and shore up institutional support throughout the 1990s. She helped save the world in spite of the system, not because of it