The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation
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🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone I'm sharing our most recent BioEats World episode here because it covers the topic of vaccines |
| 0:06.5 | a theme we've covered here since January of this year in our early and ongoing pandemic |
| 0:11.5 | coverage as part of our mission to continue bringing you |
| 0:14.3 | everything you need to know about this crisis as well as how tech changes our future. |
| 0:18.8 | You can find our past coverage including early discussions of plug and play vaccines to breaking news and what we still need to know, to how vaccines in general are made, and what was done process-wise to accelerate development, as well as the politics of who gets it first at |
| 0:34.5 | a six and see dot com slash vaccines but in the discussion that follows our bio |
| 0:39.8 | its world show be sure to subscribe if you haven't already, interviews the Moderna CEO, which aired right |
| 0:45.6 | after the FDA authorized their vaccine for emergency use. |
| 0:49.9 | And it goes into the machine that made the vaccine, including the machine inside the company and the platform |
| 0:55.8 | itself. |
| 0:56.8 | More details in the intro that follows. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi, I'm Lauren. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Hannah, and this is BioEatsats World our show where we talk about all the ways biology is technology |
| 1:07.1 | This week in place of journal club we have a very special episode featuring Stefan Bonsel |
| 1:12.0 | CEO of Moderna, in conversation with you, |
| 1:15.0 | Hannah, and A16Z general partner Jorge Conde. And we're talking about the |
| 1:19.6 | COVID-19 vaccine, right? Yep, that's exactly right. |
| 1:23.3 | The conversation is a really incredible dive into how they developed one of the world's most |
| 1:28.4 | awaited vaccines. |
| 1:30.1 | Bonsell describes everything from the moment he first realized they could make a COVID-19 vaccine |
| 1:35.2 | with their technology to the day he heard the first data on how effective it was in humans. |
| 1:41.1 | In this episode, which is airing just after the vaccines and |
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