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And dont forget about Kizzmekia Corbett the #Immunologist who was on the #moderna team that only took like 2 months to make the formula
Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett (born January 26, 1986)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective #mRNA #vaccines against COVID-19.
Despite all the known issues with these (& other) prizes, this one makes me particularly happy: it is extremely well deserved and (another) clear example of what basic science can do for humanity.
#ScienceMastodon #RNA #mRNA #preprint #mpinat
Nuclear export is a limiting factor in eukaryotic mRNA metabolism
The eukaryotic mRNA life cycle includes transcription, nuclear mRNA export and degradation. To quantify all these processes simultaneously, we perform thiol-linked alkylation after metabolic labeling of RNA with 4-thiouridine (4sU), followed by seque…bioRxiv