Two scientists whose pioneering work helped create mRNA Covid vaccines were today awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were credited with helping to change the course of the pandemic.
Before mRNA jabs were rolled out to millions of people worldwide to protect them against Covid, such technology was considered experimental. Researchers are now exploring if it could help beat cancer and other diseases.
Karikó, 68, and Weissman, 64, first met in the 1990s while working