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The United States may be losing its edge in mRNA technology­­. The technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a ...

Few medical advances in recent memory have sparked as much controversy as COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA (messenger RNA). Currently, there are two such vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other top federal officials are denigrating a manufacturing method that led to the rapid deployment of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic and now ...

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic 1 should be feted to the skies. Instead, US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced last week that ...

Senior Manufacturing Science Associate Diane Morgan performs an analysis of plasmid DNA at Vernal Biosciences in Colchester on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger U.S. Health and Human ...

Dr. Sarah Boyd, an infectious disease specialist with Saint Luke's Health System, told KCUR that federal cuts to mRNA research and development could cause a setback in pandemic preparedness. Last week ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya claims the federal government recently canceled millions of dollars’ worth of mRNA research contracts because the general public does not ...

As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust. Jay Bhattacharya is director of the National Institutes of Health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has warned that Department of Health and Human Services' decision to cut funding for mRNA vaccine ...

Many scientists have celebrated the use of mRNA to fight COVID-19, with the two researchers behind this advance winning a Nobel Prize in 2023. Most experts agree that mRNA vaccines saved millions of ...