Cambridge-based company ships first potential coronavirus vaccine for testing in ‘record speed’
"Nothing has ever gone that fast."
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| A production associate works inside Moderna 's labs in Cambridge in 2015. –Katherine Taylor / The Boston Globe |
By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com Staff
February 25, 2020
A Cambridge-based biotechnology company has shipped out the first potential coronavirus vaccine for human testing in “record speed,” as the infectious disease begins to spread outside of Asia.
In a press release Monday night, the drugmaker Moderna announced it had sent vials of the experimental vaccine, mRNA-1273, from its manufacturing plant in Norwood to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland for the first phase of clinical trials.
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