Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for mRNA vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for mRNA vaccines

Al Jazeera  

The duo win the prestigious prize for the research that led directly to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19. Hungarian-born Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman of the US have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research that led directly to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19, made by Pfizer and Moderna, according to the awarding body. The pair will receive their prize, consisting of a diploma, a gold medal and a $1m cheque, from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the prizes in his last will and testament. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was won last year by Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA which provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19.

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Who are the 2023 Nobel Prize winners so far?
1 year, 2 months ago

Who are the 2023 Nobel Prize winners so far?

Al Jazeera  

This year’s laureates have opened doors for disease control, technological advancements and subversive literature. Here is some information about this year’s winners and why they won: Nobel Prize in medicine: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman The US-based duo won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for research that led directly to the first mRNA vaccines to fight …

Winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry may have been announced early: Swedish media
1 year, 2 months ago

Winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry may have been announced early: Swedish media

Hindustan Times  

Swedish media say the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry prematurely. The press release said the prize went to three US-based scientists for the “discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” However, the prize is set to be announced at 11:45am in Sweden. What is important to know is that …

3 scientists win Nobel in chemistry for quantum dots research used in electronics, medical imaging
1 year, 2 months ago

3 scientists win Nobel in chemistry for quantum dots research used in electronics, medical imaging

Associated Press  

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots — tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in everyday life include electronics and medical imaging. Rigoberto Advincula, a materials chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, said the work helped …

Shot in the arm: On the Medicine Nobel 2023
1 year, 2 months ago

Shot in the arm: On the Medicine Nobel 2023

The Hindu  

All nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have path-breaking achievements to their credit, but often, the final choice of the winner might have a lot to do with the timing and the context. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman would have thus been safe bets for their work that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. …

The trouble with a Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

The trouble with a Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines

The Hindu  

The 2023 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for developing the mRNA vaccine technology that became the foundation for history’s fastest vaccine development programme during the COVID-19 pandemic. Once Moderna and Pfizer began producing their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, they were also mired in North American and European countries’ zeal to make …

Perseverance counts: A Nobel for mRNA vaccines is welcome
1 year, 2 months ago

Perseverance counts: A Nobel for mRNA vaccines is welcome

Live Mint  

This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine is a testament to the power of perseverance in science. By swapping out a basic building block of mRNA called uridine for a related molecule called pseudouridine, strands of mRNA could get their message to cells without triggering an immune attack. That discovery helped spawn the earliest biotech companies working on the technology, thus …

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics

Hindustan Times  

Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” They were acknowledged for their exploration of the world of electrons within atoms and molecules. Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics won by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and …

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in Medicine
1 year, 2 months ago

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in Medicine

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 03, 2023 08:01 IST - 4 MINS READ The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 has gone to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their work that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Through their findings on how mRNA interacts with our immune system Hungary’s Kariko and US’ Weissman “contributed to the unprecedented rate of …

Kariko, Weissman win medicine Nobel for work that enabled mRNA vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

Kariko, Weissman win medicine Nobel for work that enabled mRNA vaccines

Hindustan Times  

In 2020, as the world frantically tried — amid lockdowns, disinformation and fear — to build a vaccine to battle and control the pandemic, messenger RNA technology fine-tuned by biochemical scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman paved the way for the first weapon against Covid-19. Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó On Monday, Kariko and Weissman were awarded the Nobel Medicine …

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution
54 years, 11 months ago

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution

Wired  

No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. All the preliminary laboratory tests looked good; having seen …

Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic
1 year, 2 months ago

Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic

The Hindu  

The 2023 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American physician-scientist Drew Weissman. The idea was to inject the body with a modified mRNA that would instruct cells to build a certain protein, which could then provoke the body’s immune system to ‘attack’ it as well as prepare itself to …

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: What are mRNA vaccines and how do they work?
1 year, 2 months ago

2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: What are mRNA vaccines and how do they work?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their research that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. However, while most vaccines use weakened or dead bacteria or viruses to evoke a response from the immune system, mRNA vaccines only introduce a piece of the …

Drew Weissman, Nobel-winning mRNA pioneer
1 year, 2 months ago

Drew Weissman, Nobel-winning mRNA pioneer

The Hindu  

Drew Weissman's decades of research into mRNA technology paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, finally earning a Nobel prize for the physician-scientist. "There have been three pandemics or epidemics in the past 20 years," Weissman told AFP recently, referring to the original SARS virus, MERS and Covid-19. With a second big breakthrough in 2015, they found a new way to …

How Drew Weissman was informed about his Nobel win: ‘They didn’t have my number'
1 year, 2 months ago

How Drew Weissman was informed about his Nobel win: ‘They didn’t have my number'

Hindustan Times  

American Drew Weissman and Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in medicine on for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Nobel Medicine Prize 2023: US physician-scientist Drew Weissman along with his long time collaborator Katalin Kariko of Hungary won the 2023 Nobel Medicine Prize. Drew Weissman, 64, a professor and director of the Penn Institute …

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine
1 year, 2 months ago

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine

The Hindu  

Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó has become the newest Laureate to join the ranks of the numbered women who have won arguably the most prestigious award. The 68-year-old biochemist and her colleague Drew Weissman were honoured with the Prize for “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” From 1901 to 2023, the Nobel …

Explained: What are mRNA vaccines that earned two scientists Nobel in Medicine
1 year, 2 months ago

Explained: What are mRNA vaccines that earned two scientists Nobel in Medicine

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development. Penn Medicine scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA COVID-19 …

Katalin Kariko, scientific maverick who paved way for mRNA vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

Katalin Kariko, scientific maverick who paved way for mRNA vaccines

The Hindu  

Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Kariko's obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious US university, which dismissed the idea as a dead end. Kariko, 68, spent much of the 1990s writing grant applications to fund her research into "messenger ribonucleic acid" -- genetic molecules that tell cells what proteins to …

Nobel Prize 2023: Katalin Kariko says, ‘My mom is listening from above’
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2023: Katalin Kariko says, ‘My mom is listening from above’

Hindustan Times  

Katalin Kariko who won the Nobel Prize for medicine for work on messenger RNA technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines said that winning the award feels "unbelievable". Nobel Prize 2023: Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko But her mother had faith and would always listen to the Nobel Prize announcements, she said. "She listened when I was not even a …

Nobel Prize in medicine 2023 awarded to Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman for pioneering mRNA vaccine to fight COVID-19
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in medicine 2023 awarded to Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman for pioneering mRNA vaccine to fight COVID-19

Firstpost  

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden said the discoveries by Karikó and Weissman were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020 The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the …

Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in Medicine for role in Covid-19 vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in Medicine for role in Covid-19 vaccines

Hindustan Times  

Nobel Prize 2023 in Medicine: Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their groundbreaking contributions to the development of highly effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Penn Medicine scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development …

Nobel Prize 2023 for Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work in mRNA vaccines
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2023 for Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work in mRNA vaccines

The Hindu  

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on October 2, 2023. Congrats to #NobelPrize Laureates Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, awarded the 2023 …

Kariko and Weissman win 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine
1 year, 2 months ago

Kariko and Weissman win 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine

Live Mint  

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, were honoured for "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled …

Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
1 year, 2 months ago

Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Associated Press  

STOCKHOLM — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer and other diseases. Dr. Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain’s University of East Anglia, described the mRNA vaccines made …

Scientists whose work on mRNA paved the way for first COVID-19 vaccines win Nobel Prize
1 year, 2 months ago

Scientists whose work on mRNA paved the way for first COVID-19 vaccines win Nobel Prize

LA Times  

Dr. Drew Weissman, left, a physician-scientist, and biochemist Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future. “This year’s Nobel Prize recognizes their basic science discovery that fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune …

Things to know about the Nobel Prizes
1 year, 2 months ago

Things to know about the Nobel Prizes

The Hindu  

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. For reasons that are not entirely clear, Nobel decided that the peace prize should be awarded in Norway and the other prizes in Sweden. It’s possible that Nobel thought Norway would be a more suitable location for a prize meant to encourage “fellowship among nations.” To this day, …

Who is Katalin Kariko? All about vaccine scientist named among Time’s Heroes Of The Year
3 years ago

Who is Katalin Kariko? All about vaccine scientist named among Time’s Heroes Of The Year

India TV News  

A biochemist from Hungary, Katalin Kariko is among the fourth vaccine scientists apart from Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham and Drew Weissman who has been announced Time Magazine’s 2021 'Heroes of the Year'. Describing the Heroes of The Year as ’The Miracle Workers’, TIME shared, "The four were hardly alone in those efforts: scientists around the world have produced COVID-19 vaccines …

The doubted scientist and her vaccine revolution
3 years, 4 months ago

The doubted scientist and her vaccine revolution

The Hindu  

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly apparent to every country that rapid mass vaccination is the only sure way to stop the virus in its tracks. Elena Smolyarchuk at Sechenov University led the study for Sputnik V. A bold idea However, the scientist who should be feted the most for her work …

Katalin Kariko’s work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine
4 years ago

Katalin Kariko’s work in mRNA is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine

CNN  

CNN — Covid-19 vaccines are starting to roll out in several countries, a momentous breakthrough that hopefully signals a light at the end of this dark pandemic. “We had just moved into our new apartment, our daughter was 2 years old, everything was so good, we were happy,” Karikó told the Hungarian news site G7 of her family’s departure. Eventually, …

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