Thanks to Ed M.
Yesterday, the 2023 Nobel Prize Winners for Physiology or Medicine went to Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó for their discoveries in the biotechnology behind our Covid-19 mRNA vaccines.
Behind the amazing story of perseverance and collaborative spirit (it’s a fascinating story) is an absolutely revolutionary scientific discovery.
Here is the problem they solved, how we leveraged it for the pandemic, and the far-reaching implications.
The problem
In 1961, we discovered RNA in living things. RNA is a string of letters that gives our cells instructions on how to function. (continued)
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