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 ...

Other mRNA vaccines are in various stages of development, including shots to prevent influenza, Ebola, Zika virus and HIV, as well as shots aimed at treating and preventing cancer.

Belgian scientists have uncovered new details about how the immune system responds to vaccines. Dendritic cells, which are ...

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 ...

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 ...

By comparison, "mRNA vaccines can be developed and manufactured at a faster rate than other kinds of vaccines, which may be important when a new virus emerges or evolves quickly like we have seen ...

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 ...