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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for mRNA Breakthrough Used to Create COVID-19 Vaccine
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two scientists whose vaccine breakthrough contributed to developing the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman received the honour on Monday for their “groundbreaking findings” in a paper that went largely unnoticed until the COVID-19 pandemic grew rampant in 2020. When Karikó…
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New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Passes Important Human Trial
In patients with advanced melanoma, the vaccine along with immunotherapy reduced the risk of cancer recurrence and death by 44%, the companies said.
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Moderna Is Suing Pfizer Over the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
Moderna and Pfizer are set to wage legal battle over the technology that led to their respective COVID-19 vaccines. Moderna is now suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for the alleged infringement of patents related to the development of a viable mRNA vaccine platform that Moderna claims to have pioneered. Though the Massachusetts-based company…
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Your Case of Omicron Might Have Super-Boosted Your Immunity — If You Were Vaccinated
Recent preliminary research might offer some comfort to the many vaccinated Americans who came across Omicron this past winter. A pair of studies suggest that vaccinated people who caught the variant went on to develop a strong and diverse immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in general — more so than people who were vaccinated…