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Originally Posted by GGG
Biontech is a German company not American, Pfizer is the manufacturer. The mRNA tech was originally developed by a Hungarian scientist working a PEN State who got demoted because her work wasn’t winning grants and was almost lost. It was then only developed to create stem cells which were only a requirement because of the outrage over the collection of stem cells from aborted fetuses. I don’t think the mRNA story is one of American exceptionalism.
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Not to mention the lipid nanoparticle delivery system for the mRNA vaccines (which is essentially what makes the whole thing viable), was primarily developed in Vancouver. Pfizer/BioNTech and CureVac directly license the LNP system from UBC-based Acuitas, and Moderna's LNP is most likely based on technology from Arbutus Biopharma, which is also based in Vancouver (I say likely because they've been involved in a patent dispute for the last several years after having a licensing agreement prior).