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 ...

HOUSTON – The federal government is ending funding for some vaccine development projects using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, a move that could affect local researchers and ongoing projects.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Cancer: it’s a diagnosis that most of us have learned to fear. On the one hand decades ...

WASHINGTON – So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel Prize-winning technology to try to develop vaccines and treatments ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his agency will be cutting funding to mRNA development, calling the vaccine technology "ineffective" and claiming it poses more risks ...

Researchers have developed a new lipid for delivering mRNA that is safer and more effective than current technologies. By changing the chemistry of one key ingredient in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), ...

mRNA molecule, illustration. [Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] Messenger RNA (mRNA) has already transformed medicine, most notably through COVID‑19 vaccines that taught cells to act as ...

The fate of an important breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy treatment remains in the balance following an announcement earlier this week that the Department of Health and Human Services will cancel ...

Illinois researchers, including some working on vaccines for cancer and rare diseases, worry the federal government turning its back on future development of mRNA vaccines spells more hard times for ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. incorrectly argued mRNA vaccines are ineffective to justify the Department of Health and Human Service's recent decision to cancel $500 million in ...