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As COVID-19 spread, BioNTech cofounders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci had one goal: to make a safe, effective vaccine faster than ever before. In this illuminating conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, the immunologists (and married couple) share the fascinating story of how their decades of mRNA research powered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — and forecast what this breakthrough science could mean for the future of vaccines and other immunotherapy treatments.
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Incredibly inspiring people, I studied mRNA not long ago and cannot believe how far we have come since!
The scientists who make the world better, are my heroes.
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Tedx is a great way to learn English,.
Gosh, thank you, thank you Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. I don’t think there’s been a day when I didn’t briefly think of you and the incredible work that went into the tiny bit of instruction manual that went into my arm this year to teach my body how to fight the corona virus (my own defence was pretty rubbish – no offence my dear T-cells etc! 🙂
Incredible how much we now know on how our bodies work, how they can be helped and I can’t wait to see what new milestones will be crossed fighting cancer as well!
Thank you too Chris and TED for this wonderful interview.
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I love you Ugur. Last year I invested most of my money in biontech stock and literally tripled my money.
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Both my (younger) brothers have stage 4 cancers (Prostate and Mantle-Cell Non Hodgkin’s) that I hope will be curable soon.
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I understand the nature of TED as a popular “digestible” forum about inquiry, so this conversation leaves me with questions I feel compelled to explore about this “technology”. Have there been studies done on the possibility of epigenetic change or reverse transcription induced by mRNA based vaccines I could explore? I am also curious about the induced level of asymptomatic evolutionary driven virus transfer.
Give these guys a Nobel prize!
Fun Fact: The translated adress of Biontech (their company) literally is “at the Goldmine 12”
Every day the technologycal possibility given by mRNA vaccines amazes me. It goes even beyond corona and cancer into matters dealing with the immune system. Congratulations!