Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó and American physician-scientist Drew Weissman have jointly been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 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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