One weekend in January 2020, immunologist Teresa Lambe received an email containing a DNA sequence.
Lambe, a vaccine researcher with the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, spent most of that weekend exchanging messages with colleagues as they designed what would become the genetic code for a vaccine against COVID-19.
Eventually, billions of doses of the vaccine were distributed worldwide, saving the lives of more than 6 million elderly and at-risk patients, according to global marketing analyses cited by the University of Oxford…