The visualization of gene transcription – a fundamental process of life – helped tackle the Covid pandemic and won two biologists this year’s Shaw Prize in the life science and medicine category.

Patrick Cramer, director of the department of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Germany, and Eva Nogales, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the prize of US$1.2 million (HK$9.36 million).

Full article: Shaw prize for Covid vaccine duo in ‘century for biology’ (The Standard)