Making Personalized Cancer Vaccines Takes an Armyof Robots

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 7:12 a.m.

When Melissa Moore was tinkering around with RNA in the early 90s, the young biochemist had to painstakingly construct the genetic molecules by micropipette, just a few building blocks at a time. Inside the MIT lab of Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, it could take days to make just a few drops of RNA, which ferries a cell\u2019s genetic source code to its protein-making machinery.