Baidu Licenses mRNA Algorithm to Sanofi

What’s new: Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. licensed its algorithm for sequencing messenger RNA (mRNA) to French drugmaker Sanofi SA for use in designing vaccines and therapeutic products, Baidu said Monday.

The deal marks a milestone for Baidu in leveraging its strengths in computational biology to optimize mRNA vaccine and therapy development in real-world pharmaceutical practice beyond Covid-19, the tech giant said.