Sue Merrilees, Science Philanthropy AllianceRemarks have been edited and condensed for clarity and brevityRecently, I spoke with Nobel laureate Tom Cech, an External Science Advisor to the Science Philanthropy Alliance, about the publication of The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets, his first work written for a general…
The Science Philanthropy Alliance congratulates two pioneers in medical research on their well-deserved Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Drs. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. The Nobel “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19” brought to fruition the vast potential that pioneering research in DNA…