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University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Professor William Murphy (pictured left) and collaborators in his lab, including Joshua Choe (right), have engineered a mineral coating that can maintain mRNA activity for up to six months at room temperature, with implications for wider and cheaper distribution of mRNA therapies, such as COVID-19 vaccinations.

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

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