STOCKHOLM: Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.

The pair, who had been tipped as favorites, were honored "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against Covid-19," the jury said.

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