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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do mRNA vaccines work? 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 ...

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines do this by causing the body to create a piece of a protein similar to one found in the coronavirus. (The protein that the body creates in response to the mRNA vaccine is ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he's pulling the plug on nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines. Here's how they work ...

mRNA vaccines work by delivering a snippet of genetic instructions to our ... What vaccines (and our immune systems) do is filter which variants survive. When the original COVID-19 virus encountered a ...

The way these vaccines work is simple. As the word “messenger” suggests, mRNA sends a message to the immune system, showing it how to recognize a protein associated with a harmful virus.

Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.

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An mRNA vaccine does not interact with or affect our DNA, the CDC says. The body discards the mRNA after it's used. How do traditional vaccines work?

An mRNA vaccine does not interact with or affect our DNA, the CDC says. The body discards the mRNA after it's used. How do traditional vaccines work?