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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 ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. BOSTON — Over the last year, venture ...

If you think last week's decision by the federal government to halt $500 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again.

Dr. Bright is a virologist and a former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, ...

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 ...

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The United States is turning its back on what could be the greatest medical advance in a generation — vaccines made with messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology. The U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

The mRNA technology from COVID-19 vaccines may help amplify cancer treatments that use the body’s own immune system to fight cancer, a new study has found. Cancer patients who received an mRNA-based ...

The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. "We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients' ...