Here’s how it works. mRNA research enabled the remarkably fast production of COVID-19 vaccine candidates in the pandemic. But more broadly, the technology could revolutionize many areas of medicine ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...

Few medical advances in recent memory have sparked as much controversy as COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA (messenger RNA). Currently, there are two such vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

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 ...

Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: boosting the immune system to better fight tumors during cancer treatment.

(Reuters) -Cancer patients who received mRNA-based COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting treatment with widely used immunotherapies were twice as likely to be alive three years after beginning ...

Gregory Gregoriadis, who has died aged 91, pioneered the use of particles known as liposomes for drug targeting and laid the ...

Singling out Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s worst decision is difficult, because the competition is fierce, but near the top of the list was his decision to terminate a series of federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RFK Jr. canceled $500 million of funding for research on mRNA vaccine technology. Anadolu/Getty Images At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine soon after starting immune ...