Permission to leap: Welcoming biotech’s moment - A thread 👇 #JPM2021 #biotechmoment

flagshippioneering.com/stories/permis… Nearly 40 years after the first biotechnology companies began applying primitive genetic engineering techniques to bacteria and producing human proteins as therapeutics, the power of modern biotechnology is now on full display.

(1/7) Some experts are questioning whether vaccines will work to prevent #COVID19 - whether they should be tested in humans without more proof in animals first, whether they will increase viral activity rather than reducing it,.. .. (2/7) whether antibodies will be neutralizing, whether we need T Cell response instead, whether immune response will prevent the virus, whether the immunity will last, whether we can manufacture enough or distribute it appropriately, whether a vaccine can be ready in 12, ..