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Unprecedented Breakthrough (#260)

Unprecedented Breakthrough (#260)

Robert Glazer
Dec 24, 2020
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In 1985, Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó and her husband moved to the United States with only $1,200 stuffed inside their daughter’s teddy bear. Karikó had been studying a new phenomenon known as messenger RNA, or mRNA, since the 1970s, and received an offer to continue her research at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Karikó passionately believed th…

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