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Moderna has released the sequence.

The ‘recipe’ is how to actually make it at scale without denaturing everything.

This is what takes the billions of R&D investment and kills most research programs (also called the ‘valley of death’ in innovation group research).

It’s not the sequencing that’s the issue. The article even says that one of the hardest things to crack is the lipid nanoparticle delivery mechanism.

The micelles are easily worth a biotech unicorn. Of course they aren't going to be public.

Probably can’t simply decouple micelles with the sequence it is trying to deliver. Maybe if you could…

...and that isn't restricted to this vaccine, and is a major chunk of their IP.

If the WHO/UN/whomever wants to make that general technology public, they should buy it from them.

In the interim, Moderna has said it would help anyone manufacture the covid vaccine.

What the WHO is asking for goes well beyond that.

OP's article is just an anti-pharma hit piece.