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Nobel Prize 2023 In Medicine or Physiology
October 6 , 2023
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- The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.
- This is for their research that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
- Their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications enabled the very development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.
- The first vaccines to use the mRNA technology were those made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against COVID-19.
- mRNA stands for messenger RNA, is a form of nucleic acid which carries genetic information.
- Like other vaccines, the mRNA vaccine also attempts to activate the immune system to produce antibodies that help counter an infection from a live virus.
- mRNA vaccines only introduce a piece of the genetic material that corresponds to a viral protein.
- Therefore, the mRNA vaccine does not expose individuals to the virus itself.
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