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 ...

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 ...

Frustrated when Brazil could not get COVID vaccines, two Brazilian doctors (who have been best friends since college) decided to invent their own... When NPR first featured the work of Brazilian ...

Patricia Neves (left) and Ana Paula Ano Bom take a break at the institute in Rio de Janeiro where they work. The two scientists say they've been inseparable since they met in college. Now their ...