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Messenger RNA: How a long shot idea led to COVID-19 vaccines – Medical Xpress
Hungarian-American scientist Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious…
Hungarian-American scientist Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious university, which dismissed the idea as a dead end.
Now, her pioneering workwhich paved the way for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccinescould be what saves the world from a 100-year pandemic.
“This is just kind of unbelievable,” she told AFP in a video call from her home in Philadelphia, adding she was unused to the attention after…
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