Tesla to make molecule printers for German COVID-19 vaccine developer CureVac

2 Jul by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Tesla to make molecule printers for German COVID-19 vaccine developer CureVac

Tesla to make molecule printers for German COVID-19 vaccine developer CureVacCureVac, an unlisted German company, has said it is developing portable, automated mRNA production units that it calls printers and which Musk described as “RNA microfactories”. The company, based in Tuebingen and backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a pioneer of the so-called messenger RNA approach, which is also pursued by BioNTech and its partner Pfizer as well as Moderna.