Moderna's Mystery Medicines

摘要

In a hot biotech venture market, Moderna Therapeutics is ablaze. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and shrouded in secrecy, the startup claims to be developing a new class of drug that hacks the very operating system of life, turning human bodies into drug factories by directing cells to produce therapeutic proteins. Its founders include three of the world's foremost scientists from MIT and Harvard. The biotech community is buzzing with rumors about the company, which says it has 12 new drugs in its pipeline, yet few have a clue as to what specifically it is working on.