Some research has gotten a huge boost during the pandemic
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Billions of dollars have been spent fighting the pandemic, with a huge proportion of that money going towards vaccine development. Other areas of research have also gotten a big boost during the pandemic - and the results could make a huge difference to public health in the future.
Here are some of the big winners in the pandemic-inspired funding race.
mRNA Vaccines - The astounding success of both the Pfizer / BioNtech and Moderna vaccines has set the stage for the development of other highly-customizable vaccines in the future. The beauty of the vaccines is that they are basically blueprints - they use a genetic code to tell the body to build tiny molecular targets. The body's immune system then goes to town on target practice and...