The lifesaving factory
Apr 16, 2021
3 minutes
By Aryn Baker/Marburg, Germany, and Alice Park
Photographs by Luca Locatelli for TIME
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With reporting by
JULIA ZORTHIAN/NEW YORK
IF YOU’VE BEEN VACCINATED FOR COVID-19, chances are pretty high that you’re benefiting from a product made by BioNTech. The German biotech company, co-founded by a husband-and-wife team of scientists, developed the vaccine that became not only the first to earn authorization in the U.S. for COVID-19 in December but also the first ever based on a new technology involving the genetic material mRNA.
In interviews in December and March, co-founders Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci spoke about
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