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Gates Foundation funding $40 million effort to help develop mRNA vaccines in Africa in coming years

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Gates Foundation funding million effort to help develop mRNA vaccines in Africa in coming years

Headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. | Photo Credit: AP A $40 million investment will help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines on the continent where people were last in line to receive jabs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday. While it could…

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The trouble with a Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines

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The trouble with a Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines

At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm | Photo Credit: AFP The 2023 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for developing the mRNA vaccine technology that became the foundation for history’s fastest vaccine development programme during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prizes acknowledge work that has created benefits…

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