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 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 ...

A team led by Neil King, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is now exploring a new approach to COVID vaccines: using mRNA to let the body assemble its own ...

As your immunity wanes from previous infection and vaccination, the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 is to get the new COVID vaccine. There are three currently available — is one better ...

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Deborah Fuller, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) At a Sept. 4, 2025, ...

On Sept. 4, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, where he is expected to face questions about his vaccine ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. MRNA technology was thrust into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but had been in ...

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 ...