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Katalin Karikó rose to world fame as the principal creator of the vaccine against the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020-2021. Courtesy of Katalin Karikó Messenger RNA, mRNA, was discovered some thirty years before and quite a number of scientists, among them some future Nobel laureates, acted as midwifes at its discovery [[2]]. Karikó and Weissman jointly started a biotech company as a spinoff, but Karikó left it and assumed a leading position at a biotech company in Mainz, Germany. Weissman followed up on Karikó's suggestion and injected the mice with mRNA. [Extracted from the article]