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mRNA vaccine researchers celebrate Nobel prize

Nobel laureates Drew Weissman discusses the groundbreaking Messenger-RNA (mRNA)-based vaccine technology that led to the production of Covid-19 vaccines and revolutionized the pandemic response. It uses modified mRNA to tell the body's cells to produce proteins that train the immune system to defend the body against a particular disease.

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00:00 I didn't know whether it is real, you know.
00:02 We suspected maybe some, you know, prank.
00:05 Maybe, I don't know.
00:07 People watch things like that.
00:09 We worked side by side all of that time
00:12 because we couldn't get funding.
00:14 We couldn't get publications.
00:16 We couldn't get people to notice RNA
00:20 as something interesting.
00:22 It had failed clinical trials, and pretty much everybody
00:26 gave up on it.
00:27 But, you know, Katie lit the match,
00:30 and we spent the rest of our 20 plus years
00:36 working together, figuring out how to get it to work.
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