Many people first learned about mRNA vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic, when the companies Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna released their COVID-19 vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech shot was the first ...

BioNTech co-founders Dr. Ugur Sahin and Dr. Ozlem Tureci in its headquarters in Germany on Jan. 3.Photograph by Dina Litovsky—Redux for TIME “No!” The doctor snapped. “Look at me!” I had been staring ...

COVID-19 vaccines lower the risk of getting sick, seriously ill or dying from the disease. But how do the different types of COVID-19 vaccines work? Each COVID-19 vaccine causes the immune system to ...

EXPLAIN ALL THIS. MINDY, WE’VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT THESE VACCINES OVER THE PAST FIVE, SIX YEARS, RIGHT? KAI RNA VACCINES GAINED A LOT OF ATTENTION DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. THE ...

A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai overturns a longstanding assumption about how mRNA vaccines generate immunity, revealing that certain non-immune cells help ...

Over the last five years, billions of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. New research has found an unanticipated result of these vaccines: Cancer treatments are more ...

In a development that could shape cancer treatment strategies, researchers have found evidence that COVID mRNA vaccines can enhance the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy and significantly improve ...