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 ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have unearthed the biological process by which mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can cause heart damage in some young men and adolescents—and they've shown a possible ...

Pfizer has released the full data from its phase 3 trial of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate, with the potential new shot demonstrating 34.5% greater efficacy compared to a control vaccine. Of 9,225 ...

Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine uses the same ...

Flu vaccines that take a page from the COVID-19 vaccine platform are making progress in clinical trials. In a phase 3 trial, Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed a traditional vaccine, researchers ...

Researchers at MIT have just developed a new lipid nanoparticle that super-enhances the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine in mice to a hundred times its stand-alone effectiveness, thus offering ...

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might make some cancer treatments more effective. Lung cancer patients who received the vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, lived ...

The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin ...

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.

The mRNA covid-19 vaccines seem to have an unexpected benefit: extending the lives of people being treated for cancers by boosting the effectiveness of immunotherapy. An analysis of the records of ...

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