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Before it gets hijacked by zealots on both side in saving or depopulating the planet. It was a quite conservative pick given the complexities and interwovenness of discoveries in a given field: Citation Index and some fundamental property (TRPV --> Temperature/Heat/Pain & PIEZO--> Touch/Proprioception), it was relatively easy to pinpoint those two (no pun intended).

The mRNA technology would not be so clear cut in terms of persons involved since it had to go through many hurdles. There are two illustrative roadmaps [1][2] (And yes, Malone et al. was a early contributor as well (1989)[3])

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7554980/bin/ijm... [2]https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/... [3]https://www.pnas.org/content/86/16/6077

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