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est31 on Sept 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hot...

> Just like COVID helped the mRNA/CRISPR technology evolve

About mRNA vaccines I agree with you, because they indeed have been a niche thing before covid, but then they were the first available vaccines while the alternatives were still being researched when the first mRNA vaccines got their emergency approval. But how has CRISPR benefitted from covid? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere in therapeutics, no?

marcosdumay on Sept 11, 2022 [–]

> But how has CRISPR benefitted from covid?

I imagine it's on the comment because it was used to create many of the non mRNA vaccines.

But I don't think it got popularized. It was already widely popular.

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