Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA

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3. Of course. It was precursor research on mRNA that vaccine researchers applied through extensive

focused vaccine work. I am not sure where I said anything that contradicts this. If you read the articles about it that should be clear.

Every major advance in applied research has basic science research/work as its precursor. That is called basic science research as opposed to APPLIED research and is one of the areas that NIH has always had the most difficulty impressing Congress to fund. Because they don't get it or the value in laying the framework for future APPLIED research. The applied aspects of these Nobel winner's work will not only lay groundwork for further future vaccines but as is already being looked at, targeted therapies for some cancers and other conditions.


You should know the applied researchers most credited for taking mRNA research to develop mRNA vaccines received the Nobel Prize last year (and in their acceptance speech, one or both did credit the work of the current winners):

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. The two found a way to create a vaccine that would get past the body’s defenses but still prompt the immune system to make antibodies to fight the disease. October 2, 2023, NBC News