Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of life's most versatile molecules, with roles going far beyond being a messenger of genetic ...

As BioNTech works to establish a production footprint for mRNA vaccines in Africa, two EU groups have offered financial backing to the company's efforts. The European Commission pledged a 35 million ...

The U.S. government has awarded Kernal Bio and three other sub-awardees up to $48 million to help advance the biotech’s in vivo mRNA-encoded CAR T-cell program. In an interesting—if not somewhat ...

Since 1965, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have been studied for cancer treatment, but it was the technological advances in vaccines during the COVID pandemic that helped accelerate research. Currently ...

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A little less than a year after targeting Moderna in an mRNA vaccine patent lawsuit, GSK is widening the scope of its litigation by throwing its rival’s next-generation COVID-19 shot into the fold. In ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that mRNA vaccines kill people during a tense Senate hearing. The most common Covid-19 jabs, such as those produced by Pfizer ...

Deborah Fuller receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is co-founder and a scientific advisor for two biotech companies developing nucleic acid vaccine technologies that are not ...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines entered the public consciousness when they were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna used the technology in developing their ...