The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.
The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66983060
Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win Nobel prize for medicine
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share the £823,000 prize announced by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockhom