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1941 – 2021Anne Rice (1941-2021)Died 11 December 2021, aged 80American novelist whose Interview with the Vampire revived vampire fiction and sold in the tens of millions.
2021mRNA vaccine technology provenCOVID vaccines transform medicineThe success of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna validated a new platform for vaccine development. mRNA technology can be adapted rapidly to any pathogen and may transform treatment of cancer and other diseases.