How a photocopier changed the world: Nobel Prize in medicine goes to COVID vaccine duo

03/10/2023 6 min
How a photocopier changed the world: Nobel Prize in medicine goes to COVID vaccine duo

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Episode Synopsis

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The prize has been awarded to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew Weissman, who performed his prizewinning research together with Professor Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania.

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