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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades prior to the pandemic, dedicated scientists pored over mRNA, learning how this class of molecules works in the body and how it might be leveraged to heal the sick and guard against disease ...

The study examined 180 patients with advanced lung cancer who received a COVID vaccine within 100 days before or after beginning immunotherapy, as well as 704 similar patients who did not. Vaccinated ...

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), ...

Researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Nanomedicine—which designs nanotechnology-based ...

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 ...

RFK Jr. canceled $500 million of funding for research on mRNA vaccine technology. Anadolu/Getty Images At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East ...