- The story of Katalin Karikó is one of the most remarkable examples of scientific persistence in modern history. For decades, her career was defined by rejection, academic demotion, and the constant threat of deportation. While the scientific establishment dismissed messenger RNA (mRNA) as a fragile and "dead-end" molecule, Karikó remained convinced that it held the key to a medical revolution. Her journey from smuggling savings inside a teddy bear in communist Hungary to standing on the Nobel Prize podium is not just a biography of a scientist, but a testament to the power of unwavering conviction in the face of institutional doubt. --------- Story: Katalin Karikó fled her country with $1,200 hidden in a teddy bear. She was thirty years old, had a PhD in biochemistry, and believed in an idea almost no one else did. Messenger RNA could teach human cells how to fight disease. She had no idea it would take forty years for the world to listen. In 1985, Karikó, her husband, and...
Motivating the Potentials...⌘