Unprecedented Breakthrough (#260)
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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