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Dr. Wesley Walters was born in 1928 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and passed on Jan. 25, 2023, at the age of 94, in his own home, after a long, full and

In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine). At 29, the biochemist and virologist has s...