STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future.

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    439 months ago

    I’m so glad that quack who claims he helped invent the mRNA vaccine getting completely forgotten as he was one of the biggest misinformation vaccine peddlers during the pandemic.

    • @Aurenkin
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      109 months ago

      Yeah what was that guys deal? My family loved to send me clips of the dude spreading all kinds of bullshit.

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    359 months ago

    Katalin Karikó, born in 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary, senior vice president at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals until 2022, now external consultant.

    Drew Weissman, born in 1959 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, RNA researcher and patent holder, that were used in the BioNTech & Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

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      139 months ago

      Not just that but mRNA vaccines are a very novel kind of delivery system. It has the possibility to completely revolutionize vaccines and medicine.

      It’s absolutely fascinating and I’m eager to see what the future will bring out of it.

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    139 months ago

    I bet Bill Gates is feeling really cheated right about now. All those years iterating through the different versions Windows and 5G, building the perfect virus, only to have these two quacks steal his thunder.

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      9 months ago

      Bill Gates’s work may make him eligible for the peace prize, but he is NOT a doctor, clinician, or medical researcher. He shouldn’t be eligible for the medicine prize.