STAT+: Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Plus, preventing public health’s wiliest virus
Listen: Is the Nobel committee evolving? Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?
Will we ever get an HIV vaccine? And is the oft-criticized institution that awards the Nobel Prize each year showing signs of evolution?
We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. It’s Nobel week on the podcast, and reporter Megan Molteni details the unique story of this year’s winners for medicine, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Then, our colleague Jason Mast joins us to explain the scientific and ethical quandaries facing the teams attempting to develop HIV vaccines.
For more on what we cover, here’s the story on Karikó and Weissman’s partnership; Here’s more on the struggles Karikó faced while developing messenger RNA; Here are the details on the struggle for an HIV vaccine; here’s where you can find episodes of Color Code; and here’s where you can subscribe to the First Opinion Podcast.
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