The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety of mRNA technology, despite an extensive history of testing. “After a ...

I n December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of people ...

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 ...

mRNA vaccines are a novel type of vaccine that use messenger RNA (mRNA) to induce an immune response against a specific pathogen. Unlike traditional vaccines that use weakened or inactivated viruses ...

HIV vaccine efforts have been slowed by the difficulty of getting neutralizing antibodies to target the correct locations of the diverse variants of HIV. Neutralizing antibodies are proteins produced ...

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 ...

When the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2020, President Donald Trump referred to it as a "medical miracle." ...