Covid-19 and the need for more history and philosophy of RNA.

Hist Philos Life Sci

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, Lakatos Building, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.

Published: March 2021

RNA is central to the COVID-19 pandemic-it shapes how the SARS Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) behaves, and how researchers investigate and fight it. However, RNA has received relatively little attention in the history and philosophy of the life sciences. By analysing RNA biology in more detail, philosophers and historians of science could gain new and powerful tools to assess the current pandemic, and the biological sciences more generally.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7986637PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00391-wDOI Listing

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