Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

Uncommon Productions

Documentary
97 min     7.5     2025     USA

Overview

The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize winning scientist, set the stage for a revolution in molecular biology, enabling research into a new class of medicines predicated on recombinant DNA techniques ranging from the development of synthetic insulin and human growth hormone to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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