{"id":107235,"date":"2023-10-04T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=107235"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:46:00","slug":"kariko-and-weissman-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-work-that-enabled-mrna-vaccines-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=107235","title":{"rendered":"Karik\u00f3 and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future. Hungarian-American Katalin Karik\u00f3 and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing vaccine development during what the panel that awarded the prize called \u201cone of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.\u201d The panel said the pair changed &#8220;our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.\u201d Simply injecting lab-grown mRNA into the body triggered an inflammatory reaction that usually destroyed it&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/world\/article\/nobel-prize-announcements-are-getting-underway-18400927.php\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}