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Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Kariko and Weissman for mRNA Covid vaccines

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The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded jointly to Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko and American physician Drew Weissman for their work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that led to the creation of Covid-19 vaccinations. SOUNDBITE

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