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3 Questions: Phillip Sharp on the discoveries that enabled RNA vaccines for Covid-19

Curiosity-driven basic science, led by Phillip Sharp, a professor within the Department of Biology and member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, in the 1970s laid the groundwork for today’s leading vaccines against the novel coronavirus.