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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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[–] 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.