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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vishwam Sankaran

Nobel prize in medicine goes to scientists behind Covid-19 vaccine

Nobel Assembly/Niklas Elmehed

Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó and American physician-scientist Drew Weissman have jointly been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their work leading to the development of mRNA Covid-19vaccines.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet said on Monday that the duo’s work on modifications to nucleoside molecules in life forms enabled the “development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.”

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