Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
www.bbc.com
Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
13 comments
-
-
Glad to see Katalin Kariko won. A lot of people told her she couldn't do her experiments and she just kept at it. Ten years ago she was kicked out, fired for keeping at it
-
So glad BioNTech picked her up and saw the potential in their research. Good to see that it payed off so well and I hope their continuing plans to fight cancer with the technology is met with success.
-
Here's a link to an SA article about all of it....
BtW, Spare a thought for Penn’s PR team today trying to work out what to say about the Medicine Nobel Prize going to one of their professors and another professor they kicked out for “not doing faculty-level research.”
-
-
That's probably the most uplifting part about the award - such amazing persistence.
-
-
This is very well-earned. mRNA vaccines are a huge medical breakthrough that we're just scratching the surface of. Personalized mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer have already started human trials that have put cancer into complete remission in most patients. I'm excited to see where this technology goes. Imagine cancer becoming something easily treatable with a simple course of vaccines.
-
They saved millions of lives. Republicans hate them.
-
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
The Nobel Prize committee said: "The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times."
Traditional vaccine technology has been based on dead or weakened versions of the original virus or bacterium - or by using fragments of the infectious agent.
The immune system recognises these as foreign so it attacks and has learned how to fight the virus, and therefore has a head start when future infections occur.
The big idea behind the technology is that you can rapidly develop a vaccine against almost anything - as long as you know the right genetic instructions to use.
But by refining the technology, the researchers were able to produce large amounts of the intended protein without causing dangerous levels of inflammation that had been seen in animal experiments.
Saved 67% of original text. :::
-
13 comments
This is great + well-deserved, plus it has the side benefit of making some of the world's worst people really, really mad.
This is what makes me personally most happy about this.