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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two scientists whose vaccine breakthrough contributed to developing the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman received the honor on Monday for their “groundbreaking findings” in a paper that went largely unnoticed until the COV…