Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution(2025)

🎬97 min
📅2025-02-05
🎭Documentary

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.

Production

Uncommon Productions, Independent Lens

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Cast

Mark Ruffalo
as Narrator (voice)
Phillip A. Sharp
as Self
Walter Isaacson
as Self
Ann Sharp
as Self
Chanda Davetas
as Ann Sharp