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Nobel Prize 2023. From Failure to Salvation: The Development of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19
The recipients of the 2022 Novo Nordisk Prize and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine tell the story behind the development: the failures, the persistence and the distrust in the technology they are now certain will also revolutionise the approach to treating many otherwise severe diseases. When the world was locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a miracle was needed to reopen it. Vaccine researchers around the world dropped what they were doing to join the collective race against the new virus. The first to reach the finish line was considered a real outsider: the mRNA vaccine. However, many people do not know that the work on mRNA as a new drug class started decades ago.
Genes – should they be changed or left alone?
In biology, a gene is defined as the sequence of small nucleotides that together comprise the DNA or RNA that encodes proteins – the real building blocks of life. The influence of genes has been discussed ever since they were discovered. The questions are many: what is most important – genes or the environment in which we live? Is it acceptable to manipulate genes – the code of life, if the goal is to heal people and provide food for them?