The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

[just444]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/Y62uJDlNMj
- The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 2, 2023

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[hallyujah]

So deserved! I'm worried that they're gonna now get a lot of targeted harassment ughh. The breakthrough in vaccine technology has saved so many lives.

[anna_bea2]

I hate that potential harassment is one of the first things I thought of when I saw this post :(

[deerlike]

One of the top replies to the Nobel tweet is, predictably, from an antivaxxer "doctor".

[jesuisjuan]

It really makes me sad and sometimes jaded how far we've come but have regressed with people who refute science and see it as some kind of scam. It's almost as if we went back to the Scientific Revolution or even before that where now we have more doubters and people with skepticism and fear. Beyonce was onto something when she said we're in a new Renaissance because damn...

I read that there is a wave of more people with bigger anti-vax movements where they really want to argue that they have their religious freedom and rights, so they're exempt from getting vaccinated. As if vaccines were invented in Jesus time, and he condemned them. I swear, Darwin was right that not many are fit to survive

[misoras]

Mama with the Nobel Prize and daughter with the Olympic golds. What a legacy.

[spameyeam]

Damn really? Some families just have greatness in their genes.

[misoras]

Yup - rower with the US Team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Francia

[victorrules]

Wait, she started her sport as a college sophomore?! And then won her first Olympic gold medal seven years later?!?! Is that progression common in rowing? I'm just as impressed by her quick progression as her two Olympic gold medals. Dang.

[devopet]

Damn straight I hope she gets to laud it in front of all sorts of doubters for a long time.

Spare a thought for @Penn’s PR team today trying to work out what to say about the Medicine Nobel Prize going to one of their professors and another professor they kicked out for “not doing faculty-level research.” https://t.co/zLEM7gB62R pic.twitter.com/e2NRWWElS4
- Florian Ederer (@florianederer) October 2, 2023

[hydropen]

Christ, university admins can be terrible. UPenn better apologize.

[sereniti_ii]

No limelight for you, Penn!

[ohwutevernvm]

Iconic, legendary, revolutionary, historic moment in the name of hope, humanity and evolution, cosmic blessings etc etc etc.

[yami_no_hoshi]

well deserved!

I read a while back that the breakthroughs in mRNA vaccines have led to breakthroughs for other diseases/viruses besides Covid. SCIENCE! <3

[popcoins]

Yes! All sorts of applications. Apparently mRNA vaccines had been around a while… I want to say since the 90s… but they hadn’t been adapted to these other disease applications for reasons (I want to say like… stability or autoimmunity or smthg). It seems like they discovered how to do that!!

I’m so glad for this breakthrough, what fantastic progress that we can all benefit from!

[yami_no_hoshi]

that's so amazing!! one discovery leads to another and another.

[nefertitii]

its not the mRNA vaccines that have been around, its the idea. but research and scientists thought it was scientific backwater. mrna isnt stable, and being injected led to a crazy, uncontrolled immune response. but a handful of scientists were sure they could be used as vaccines/drugs, and their entire focus was on how to keep the molecule stable and not evoke a strong immune response.

katalin and drew figured out how