From the course: Developing a Critical Thinking Mindset
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Becoming a good thinker
From the course: Developing a Critical Thinking Mindset
Becoming a good thinker
- In 1990, Professor Katalin Karikó submitted the first grant application for what ultimately became the key technology in the COVID vaccine race. Attempting to harness the power of Messenger RNA to fight diseases in new ways required asking the quintessential creative thinking question. How can we rearrange this problem to see if we can discover a new solution? Throughout most of Karikó's career, creative thinking looked like failure. Her work was too out there for government grants, corporate funding or support from her own colleagues. It was ignored. But one of her languishing articles caught the eye of another researcher, Derek Rossi. Rossi didn't have vaccines on his mind, but he did suspect that Karikó's work could lead to something researchers coveted, a new source for stem cells. From languishing researcher to stem cells to the Messenger RNA coronavirus vaccine, the story takes many creative thinking twists and…
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