NZ's RNA tech opportunity

NZ's RNA tech opportunity
The government committed $40.7 million for RNA technology in the budget. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
Two years ago, New York yoga teacher Melissa Honkanen became the first person in the world to be vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.She was part of a clinical trial being run at New York University’s Langone Medical Centre as the world scrambled to deal with the spread of covid-19.“My husband asked, do you want to join this? I thought: 'yeah, this is a no-brainer for me. We’ve got to do something; this is not a sustainable life that we have',” she said last month.The majority of adult New Zea...

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