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Scientists behind mRNA Covid-19 vaccines win Nobel prize
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s technology enabled Moderna and Pfizer to swiftly develop shots
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research that laid the groundwork for some of the best-selling medicines of all time: the messenger-RNA vaccines against Covid-19.
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s work helped pioneer the technology that enabled Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership to swiftly develop shots. The vaccines have been given to hundreds of millions of people around the world, a key step toward easing the coronavirus pandemic.
Kariko and Weissman will ...