In 2023, the Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize was awarded to Katalin Kariko and Dew Weissmann "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".

To give a hint of their achievements from organic chemical, biochemical, microbiological, and medicinal chemical points of views, we are initiating a Special Issue of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Research (https://www.syncsci.com/journal/JPBR) titled "Beta coronaviruses". The Special Issue wish to cover the widest range of research with the different beta coronaviruses, focusing on the SARS-CoV-2.

To encourage researchers both from the academia and the industry, the journal offers 100% waiver for those authors who submit their manuscript before May 31, 2024. According to the above aims, we wish to ask researchers who know the field and are active practitioners of any field segment to participate.