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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 ...

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 ...

Vaccines train the body's defenses to fight infections safely. Learn how vaccines work, how the immune system responds, and ...

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 ...

Two scientists whose work led to the mRNA vaccines against covid-19 have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the prize for their ...

Phil Santangelo has developed a treatment for dengue virus using mRNA and CRISPR technology. Phil Santangelo has led development of a new treatment for dengue virus, using mRNA and CRISPR technology. ...