While most vaccines take years to develop, test and approve, COVID-19 vaccines appeared with astonishing speed within a year. It was the research of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman whose long years of research laid the foundations. Crawford Kilian writes. Crawford is a contributing editor for The Tyee. Published Monday, March 11, 2024. 

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/03/11/How-Underdog-Biochemist-Won-Nobel-Prize/

While most vaccines take years to develop, test and approve, COVID-19 vaccines appeared with astonishing speed within a year. It was the research of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman whose long years of research laid the foundations. Crawford Kilian writes. Crawford is a contributing editor for The Tyee. Published Monday, March 11, 2024. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/03/11/How-Underdog-Biochemist-Won-Nobel-Prize/

How an Underdog Biochemist Won a Nobel Prize

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