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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] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so glad that quack who claims he helped invent the mRNA vaccine getting completely forgotten as he was one of the biggest misinformation vaccine peddlers during the pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah what was that guys deal? My family loved to send me clips of the dude spreading all kinds of bullshit.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These guys are heroes. Doing their job, but they came in clutch and saved millions of lives.

[–] CosmicTurtle 13 points 1 year ago

Not just that but mRNA vaccines are a very novel kind of delivery system. It has the possibility to completely revolutionize vaccines and medicine.

It's absolutely fascinating and I'm eager to see what the future will bring out of it.

[–] paddirn 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet Bill Gates is feeling really cheated right about now. All those years iterating through the different versions Windows and 5G, building the perfect virus, only to have these two quacks steal his thunder.

[–] TheWoozy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bill Gates's work may make him eligible for the peace prize, but he is NOT a doctor, clinician, or medical researcher. He shouldn't be eligible for the medicine prize.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Woooosh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

literally saved the world for humanity