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F. William Studier in 2004; in the 1980s, Studier and a team of collaborators deciphered key details of the T7 bacteriophage and turned what they learned into a system to produce copious amounts of desired proteins. The production of today's mRNA COVID-19 vaccines relies on these foundational discoveries. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven Lab

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Former SBU Professor Collaborated on Biotech Tools Used to Produce COVID Vaccines

The first two vaccines approved for battling COVID-19 in the United States use a relatively new approach — injections of simple packets containing mRNA, a genetic material that instructs our cells to make coronavirus...

April 15, 2021

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Tag: mRNA

Former SBU Professor Collaborated on Biotech Tools Used to Produce COVID Vaccines

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