Elon Musk Is Trying to Produce a COVID-19 Vaccine In Germany
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:53 am
https://observer.com/2020/09/tesla-elon ... n-curevac/
Elon Musk Is Trying to Produce a COVID-19 Vaccine In Germany
Newly crowned centibillionaire Elon Musk is looking to contribute Tesla’s tech resources to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, again—despite having been dead wrong about the virus several times over the last five months.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is in Germany this week. On Tuesday, Musk quietly visited the headquarters of German biotech firm CureVac in Tübingen. According to local reports, the visit was to discuss collaboration between CureVac and Grohmann Automation, a local engineering firm acquired by Tesla in 2017, about building RNA microfactories, a bioprinting technology that could help accelerate the development and production of COVID-19 vaccines.
The cooperation between CureVac and Tesla’s Grohmann unit was first made public in July, when Musk tweeted that Tesla was looking into RNA microfactories “as a side project.”
“In principle, I think synthetic RNA (and DNA) has amazing potential. This basically makes the solution to many diseases a software problem,” he tweeted in July.
In fact, Tesla and CureVac had started on the “RNA printer” collaboration before the pandemic. In 2018, the two companies filed a joint international patent application for a bioprinting technology titled “Bioreactor for RNA in vitro Transcription,” aimed to automate the RNA production process.
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Elon Musk Is Trying to Produce a COVID-19 Vaccine In Germany
Newly crowned centibillionaire Elon Musk is looking to contribute Tesla’s tech resources to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, again—despite having been dead wrong about the virus several times over the last five months.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is in Germany this week. On Tuesday, Musk quietly visited the headquarters of German biotech firm CureVac in Tübingen. According to local reports, the visit was to discuss collaboration between CureVac and Grohmann Automation, a local engineering firm acquired by Tesla in 2017, about building RNA microfactories, a bioprinting technology that could help accelerate the development and production of COVID-19 vaccines.
The cooperation between CureVac and Tesla’s Grohmann unit was first made public in July, when Musk tweeted that Tesla was looking into RNA microfactories “as a side project.”
“In principle, I think synthetic RNA (and DNA) has amazing potential. This basically makes the solution to many diseases a software problem,” he tweeted in July.
In fact, Tesla and CureVac had started on the “RNA printer” collaboration before the pandemic. In 2018, the two companies filed a joint international patent application for a bioprinting technology titled “Bioreactor for RNA in vitro Transcription,” aimed to automate the RNA production process.
I don’t like this man