Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
- Movies
- 2025-02-05
- EN
- Released
- 2h 37m
- US
- Documentary
- Budget: $1,000,000.00
Production
Uncommon Productions, Independent Lens
Storyline
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.
