25.12.2022, 21:06
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022 Edition [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B097W1TBF7 | 2022 | 11 hours and 34 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Joe Miller, Özlem Türeci, Ugur Sahin
Narrator: Nathan Osgood
The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was built upon almost 30 years of research. While working to revolutionize the way that cancerous tumors are treated, the couple had explored a volatile and overlooked molecule called messenger RNA; they believed it could be harnessed to turn the human body into its own pharmacy. As the founders of BioNTech, they faced widespread skepticism from the scientific community at first; but by the time Sars-Cov-2 was discovered in Wuhan, BioNTech was prepared to deploy cutting-edge technology and create the world's first approved inoculation for the coronavirus.