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Scientists Behind MRNA Covid Vaccines Win Nobel Prize In Medicine

By Joji Xavier   ✉   | Published:   | Follow Us On Google News
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Two scientists who developed the technology behind the mRNA Covid vaccines have won this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced Monday that it decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19."

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