Mendelspod Podcast

Has the pandemic unleashed the molecule of RNA to be the new future of drug development? Tim Mercer is the Director of the BASE Lab at the University of Queensland which has recently become one of Australia’s leading national facilities for the manufacture and research of RNA technologies. Tim is the next guest in our series on enzymatic DNA synthesis which he says is "a quantum shift” in our ability to synthesize DNA. Tim then goes on to explore the future of mRNA vaccines and other RNA therapeutics.