mRNA vaccines in a pandemic year
Built on decades of Karikó and Weissman's work on modified RNA, COVID-19 vaccines were designed from a posted genome in days and authorized before the year ended.
Why it matters
Medicine's fastest turnaround ever came from treating the vaccine as software: sequence in, lipid nanoparticle out. A pandemic that separated humanity also demonstrated what networked science can do when it hurries.
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Katalin Karikó · Drew Weissman
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- Nobel Prize — mRNA vaccines