2 scientists win Nobel medicine prize over COVID vaccine development

Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and her U.S. research partner Drew Weissman won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work leading to the development of COVID-19 vaccines using a new messenger RNA technology, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said.Kariko and Weissman, who are professors at the University of Szeged in Hungary and the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, respectively, found ways to engineer mRNA molecules so they could get into human cells without triggering an inflammatory response, enabling their use as a vaccine."…READ FULL ARTICLE