Billions of people around the world have received the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr Katalin Karikó and Dr Drew Weissman, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, have been given the prestigious award for their discoveries into mRNA biology. The pair were the first to discover a way of modifying mRNA that allowed it to successfully be delivered to cells and replicated by them.
Our mRNA copies and carries these genetic instructions from our DNA to our cells. The cells then make whatever protein they've been instructed to, such as haemoglobin which helps red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. To understand how they overcame the first barrier, it's important to understand mRNA's structure. Normally, mRNA molecules contain four types of smaller molecules known as bases : A , U , G , and C . Different sequences of these bases can be strung together to produce the basis of an mRNA molecule.
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