How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines

The technology could revolutionize efforts to immunize against HIV, malaria, influenza and more. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w

DARPA and RNA vaccines -

"...two smaller firms with ties to the DARPA programme continued to work on the technology. One was CureVac in Tübingen, Germany, which began human testing of a rabies vaccine...

The other was Moderna, which built on work funded by DARPA..."

"RNA vaccines seem built for speed. From genetic sequence of a pathogen, researchers can quickly pull out a potential antigen-encoding segment, insert that sequence in a DNA template and then synthesize corresponding RNA before packaging the vaccine for delivery into the body."

"Moderna, for example, managed this within 4 days of receiving the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence. It focused on the virus’s spike protein, a surface protein used to enter cells."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w ....the amazing speed of development of a new RNA vaccine.