Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: ...

An analysis of patient records suggests that mRNA covid-19 vaccines boost the immune response to cancerous tumours when given ...

A team led by Neil King, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is now exploring a new approach to COVID vaccines: using mRNA to let the body assemble its own ...

Dr. Drew Weissman, left, a physician-scientist, and biochemist Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could ...

Scientists from the University of Florida and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center describe this as a milestone ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. MRNA technology was thrust into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but had been in ...

The federal government is cutting $500 million in research money for development of mRNA vaccines, which were widely used against the COVID-19 virus. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a ...

The COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was distributed at Royal Air Force Lakenheath for the first time on June 4, 2021. This is a two shot series vaccine, where the first shot primes the immune system ...

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were ...

Most vaccines contain an infectious pathogen or a part of it, but mRNA vaccines deliver the genetic instructions for our cells to make viral or bacterial proteins themselves. Our immune system ...

Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, were cited "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19." ...