While using mRNA as medicine is new, mRNA has been inside you for your entire life. The cells in your body create mRNAs that serve as instructions to make specific proteins you need to function.

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 first ...

The world of biomedicine has developed a lot of technology that seems a small step removed from science fiction, but the public isn't aware of much of it. One of those technologies, mRNA-based ...

When U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Aug. 5 that nearly $500 million to research mRNA vaccines would be canceled, it was one in a continuing line of moves that have put his ...

The US health secretary's cancellation of nearly $500 million-worth of funding for multiple mRNA vaccine projects has been described as a dangerous decision for public health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a ...

As lawmakers prepare legislation to roll back mandates, the surgeon general has floated going one step further: banning mRNA ...

Many New Yorkers planning to use a vaccine to protect themselves and their children from COVID-19 in 2025 now face an increasingly uncertain path to getting the shots. That warning from some doctors ...

As Florida lawmakers prepare legislation to roll back vaccine mandates, the surgeon general has floated the idea of going one step further – banning mRNA vaccines. Medical experts say that it has ...