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Jason McLellan was waiting for a pair of snowboard boots to be heat-molded to his feet when he answered a call that likely saved millions of lives. Barney Graham, a virologist with the National Institutes of Health, had reached him in a ski shop in Park City, Utah, to ask for his help in developing a vaccine to fight a novel coronavirus that had emerged in China just weeks earlier.McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, immediately messaged Daniel Wrapp, one of the top graduate researchers in his lab, telling him they were joining Graham’s effort. At that moment, the pair knew something few in the world did. Working mostly unnoticed, McLellan and his team had pioneered an entirely new process…
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