Berawal dari pertemuan yang tidak disengaja pada akhir tahun 1990 antara Katalin Kariko (68) dan Drew Weissman (64) saat memfotokopi makalah penelitian, pengembangan vaksin berbasis mRNA dimulai.

Despite the controversy it causes from time to time, the laureates that the Nobel Prize committee select to receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences always reflect the issues that have been relevant to the world that particular year.