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Nobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 (apnews.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NocturnalMorning 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Leave it to medicine to patent life saving technology instead of putting it out there for the general good of everyone.

[–] nezbyte 10 points 1 year ago

Here is an article from 2021 that has a network analysis of how vaccine patents are licensed between pharmaceutical companies. Licensed patents are still better than nothing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00912-9

[–] OrteilGenou 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess Jonas Salk was just a sucker

[–] NocturnalMorning 3 points 1 year ago

My point is pretty much the opposite of that. Medicine shouldn't even be patentable.