By Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries together that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday. “The laureates contributed to […]
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Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman shared the coveted Nobel Prize award today The duo were credited with helping to change the course of the Covid pandemic By Emily Stearn, Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 10:59 BST, 2 October 2023 | Updated: 11:17 BST, 2 October 2023 A US-born scientist and Hungarian […]
Six days of Nobel Prize announcements are beginning with the unveiling of the winner of the medicine award ByDAVID KEYTON Associated Press and MIKE CORDER Associated Press FILE – A Nobel Prize medal is displayed during a ceremony in New York on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. The Nobel Prize winners […]
A light micrograph of breast cancer cells, which could one day be treated by targeting specific proteins on their surface CNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A new kind of medicine that destroys specific proteins on the surface of cells could lead to better therapies for conditions such as cancer. The approach, devised […]
Pakistan’s health minister says an injectable medicine that was causing a severe eye infection and sight loss in diabetic patients in the province of Punjab has been recalled and an investigation ordered while police are looking for the suppliers ByThe Associated Press September 24, 2023, 6:45 AM ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s […]
Dr. Leslie Hendeles began prodding the Food and Drug Administration to reject a decongestant in cold medicines when he had a mop of curly red hair and Bill Clinton had just become president. By the time opposition to the drug had coalesced, Dr. Hendeles was appearing, at age 80, as […]
DETROIT (AP) — Dr. Starling Tolliver knew she wanted to become a doctor. Yet, as a Black girl growing up in Akron, Ohio, it was a dream that felt out of reach. She rarely saw doctors who looked like her. As a child, she experienced severe hair loss, and struggled […]
From the top deck of the Stade de France came a tricolor, a shimmering butterfly of red, white and blue, floating through the sultry Paris night, catching the disco lights as it fell to earth. Then another. And another. Then – a little less poetically – a can of Coke […]