On this week’s SciencePodcast🎙: Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic. 🎧 Listen here:
The messenger RNA payload of the mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 is wrapped up in little fatty packets called lipid nanoparticles . These fat bubbles were originally designed for something much different—carrying molecules into cells to silence genes.
But they were useful and we were in a hurry, so not much was changed about them when they were pressed into service against COVID-19. Science journalist Elie Dolgin talks with host Sarah Crespi aboutNext on the show, we hear about “pain chronification.
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