When NPR first featured the work of Brazilian scientists and longtime best friends Patricia Neves and Ana Paula Ano Bom, they were in the early stages of an audacious attempt to break open global ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...

It was an unlikely collaboration, and it began in an unlikely place, but the partnership that Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman formed in the 1990s at the University of Pennsylvania has now led to ...

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan's ...