University scientists deconstruct Covid-19 vaccines and publish 'recipe' on open web

Stanford University scientists determine sequences of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines from vials set to be discarded

Scientists have determined the recipes" for two Covid-19 vaccines using leftovers in vials bound for the trash and published the mRNA sequences on Github, the online repository for software code.

The group of scientists from Stanford University were able to determine the sequences of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and included the mRNA sequences in a post they published on Github last week, tech news site Motherboard first reported.