The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine | Kathryn A. Whitehead
TED Health
English - September 28, 2021 04:00 - 11.8 MB - ★★★★ - 957 ratingsHealth & Fitness Science politics interview entrepreneurship business health leadership entrepreneur news fitness finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What if you were holding life-saving medicine ... but had no way to administer it? Zoom down to the nano level with engineer Kathryn A. Whitehead as she gives a breakdown of the little fatty balls (called lipid nanoparticles) perfectly designed to ferry cutting-edge medicines into your body's cells. Learn how her work is already powering mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and forging the path for future therapies that could treat Ebola, HIV and even cancer.