Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karik and the Race for the Future of Vaccines Dadey Debbie
Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karik and the Race for the Future of Vaccines Dadey Debbie Meet Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Kati Kariko. An mRNA vaccine had never been made before, and she faced…
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Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karik and the Race for the Future of Vaccines Dadey Debbie
Meet Hungarian American biochemist Katalin Kati Kariko. An mRNA vaccine had never been made before, and she faced frequent criticism and was told by other scientists she would never succeed. She became fascinated by science as a child and grew up determined to find a way to use messenger RNA, a copy of a part of DNA which provides cells with instructions to make proteins, to help fight illness.
Kariko refused to give up her research, and when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she played a critical role in developing the successful Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine faster than any other vaccine in