mRNA vaccine
medicine
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Karikó
- In Katalin Karikó
…the development of the first mRNA vaccines—a breakthrough that occurred in 2021, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. For their discoveries relating to mRNA nucleosides, which opened the way to the development of effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, Karikó and her colleague American immunologist Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023…
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Weissman
- In Drew Weissman
…his colleague the Hungarian-born immunologist Katalin Karikó discovered that mRNA can induce immune responses against specific disease-causing agents. They further found that by introducing changes in mRNA nucleosides (the structural subunits of RNA), it was possible to modify these immune responses. The team’s discoveries enabled the development in 2021 of…
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