Scientists say HHS’s decision to stop investing in mRNA vaccine research is another sign of the growing politicization of ...

The top public health officials during Trump's first term praised mRNA vaccines. In the second term, officials seem to be ...

Vaxart said on Wednesday it received an order to stop work on screening and enrollment for its COVID-19 mid-stage trial, ...

Clinical trials have shown the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are safe and effective, especially at preventing severe illness, ...

RNA vaccines were a game-changer in the fight against COVID-19 — but now, their future could be shifting. The U.S. Department ...

( NewsNation) — National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya believes mRNA vaccine technology is “promising” but ...

WASHINGTON -- So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using ...

Messenger RNA vaccines, or mRNA, differ from traditional ones. Instead of growing a virus and weakening it to allow the body to engage its natural defenses, mRNA vaccines use pieces of genetic code to ...

While the new, approved COVID-19 vaccines are the first mRNA vaccines to be licensed by the FDA, the technology has been in use for cancer research since at least 2011.

The story of mRNA vaccines dates back to the early 1990s, when Hungarian-born researcher Katalin Kariko of the University of Pennsylvania started testing mRNA technology as a form of gene therapy.

A researcher of Stermirna Therapeutics Co., Ltd. shows the experiment to develop an mRNA vaccine targeting the novel coronavirus in east China's Shanghai. Ding Ting / Xinhua via Getty Editor's ...

They then create a single mRNA that triggers the body to make these proteins – just as COVID-19 vaccines trigger production of the spike protein that sits on the surface of the virus.