TWiV reviews the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their identification nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, and accelerated mutation of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Angela Mingarelli
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AZ – Bronze statue of laboratory mouse knitting DNA in Russia
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