Scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine on Monday. teleSUR
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00:00 Scientists Karolyn Karikó and Drew Westman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Psychology
00:06 or Medicine on Monday.
00:08 According to the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm, which presents the prestigious award each
00:13 year, Karikó and Westman received the prize for their discoveries on the nucleoside-based
00:18 modifications that enable the development of effective messenger RNA vaccines against
00:24 COVID-19.
00:25 The Institute notes that the Hungarian scientists and the American researchers' discoveries
00:30 were instrumental in developing effective messengers RNA vaccines against COVID-19
00:37 during the pandemic that began in early 2020.
00:40 It also notes that through these groundbreaking discoveries, Karikó and Westman contributed
00:46 in an unprecedented way to the development of vaccines during one of the greatest threats
00:50 to human health in modern times.
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