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The Nobel that Sparked Biotech
From a farm in rural Kentucky to the cutting edge of molecular biology, Phil Sharp’s path is anything but ordinary. In 1977, he discovered RNA splicing at MIT—a breakthrough that redefined biology and won him a Nobel Prize. But his story goes beyond science—it’s also the story of how the biotech industry was born.
In this episode, we explore:
- How did he go from a rural farm in Kentucky to a Nobel prize-winning discovery at MIT?
- How did the city of Cambridge become the most concentrated biotech ecosystem in the world?
- How to build trust in technology today, just as biotech had to build trust around recombinant DNA in the 1970s?
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By Maëlle TroadecFrom a farm in rural Kentucky to the cutting edge of molecular biology, Phil Sharp’s path is anything but ordinary. In 1977, he discovered RNA splicing at MIT—a breakthrough that redefined biology and won him a Nobel Prize. But his story goes beyond science—it’s also the story of how the biotech industry was born.
In this episode, we explore:
- How did he go from a rural farm in Kentucky to a Nobel prize-winning discovery at MIT?
- How did the city of Cambridge become the most concentrated biotech ecosystem in the world?
- How to build trust in technology today, just as biotech had to build trust around recombinant DNA in the 1970s?