But mRNA vaccines work particularly well in this situation because they can be made so fast. If you want to make a bunch of doses of a vaccine, you need to actually grow those viruses somehow.

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 ...

How the the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine works With the new discovery, Moderna was fast at work developing a vaccine using mRNA – messenger ribonucleic acid, sometimes called the “software of life ...

Oncologists and scientists warn that extensive cuts to mRNA funding will have devastating impacts on cancer vaccine ...

Many people first learned about mRNA vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic, when the companies Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna released their COVID-19 vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech shot was the ...

New mRNA vaccines use genes from the coronavirus to produce immunity. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty ImagesTens of millions of people across the U.S. have received a coronavirus vaccine. So ...

Both mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have developed cannot cause COVID-19. They do not carry the full information for our cells to make the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and therefore ...

Vaccines using mRNA, or messenger ribonucleic acid, are on the rise in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The technology has yielded encouraging results, but a successful mRNA vaccine has ...

The new genetic vaccines to prevent Covid-19 infections use mRNA technology, instead of the approach used in traditional vaccines, like those for measles and polio. These new genetic vaccines ...

Leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates use a new type of vaccine made from messenger RNA, known as mRNA. Here's why it's seen as a big breakthrough.