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The recipients of the medicine prize are the people who pioneered the use of COVID vaccines
Katalin Karik and Drew Weissman have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. They discovered a way to deliver mRNA into cells without triggering an unwanted immune response. The vaccines have been administered more than 13 billion times, saved millions of lives…
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Mastodons were a part of the ancient culture of Greenland 2 million years ago.
Svante Pbo, a scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and ultimately unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dalén Pbo’s team had obtained partial genomes of a million-year-old mammoth from Siberia in 2021. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends…