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Researchers at MIT have just developed a new lipid nanoparticle that super-enhances the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine in ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, of the University of Pennsylvania, for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material ...

Vaccines train the body's defenses to fight infections safely. Learn how vaccines work, how the immune system responds, and ...

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 ...

Clemens Plaschka is the 2024 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, his work has shed light on the ...

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 ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA — a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins — ...

In a breakthrough in cancer treatment, Russia’s cancer vaccine has completed preclinical trials demonstrating both safety and high efficacy., Veronika Skvortsova, head of the Federal Medical and ...

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 ...