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welcome to the cotkey ride home for friday, April 9th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

The story of the woman whose decades of research helped make the mRNA COVID vaccines possible.

Plus, electric cars don't make much noise, which means we have the opportunity now to design what the future will sound like.

And the co-founder of Elon Musk's Neurrelink casually mused over the weekend that they could technically build Jurassic Park if they wanted to.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

The messenger RNA or MRNA technology used in two of the leading COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna,

is not exactly new, even though these are the first

vaccines to be approved for use. As I've mentioned before, on this show, the concept goes back

decades. But it was a tough nut to crack, and the funding for it was rarely there, since it was

such an unorthodox kind of idea. One of the main scientists who believed in its potential and worked

tirelessly on it for years is Dr. Catalan Kariko. Kariko has spent her entire career focusing

on mRNA, believing it could be utilized to instruct cells to make their own medicines.

She wasn't alone in this hypothesis, but she did stand out for her commitment to it,

with peers, including Dr. Fauci, remarking on her single-minded passion. Born and raised in a

small Hungarian town, Dr. Carrico also earned her PhD in her home country, but immigrated to the U.S.

to work at Temple University in Philadelphia after the research program she was a part of as a postdoctoral fellow ran out of money.

And here's a little interesting aside that illustrates Carricka's grit. Because the Hungarian government had a maximum of $100 that they could take with them out of the country, she and her husband, Bella Franshia, sewed the equivalent of just over $1,200 into their two-year-old

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