How do mRNA vaccines work? mRNA vaccines teach the immune system to target specific proteins, often proteins found on a pathogen, like a virus.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, an American nonprofit academic medical centre, an mRNA vaccine trains your body to fight ...

Messenger RNA vaccines, or mRNA, differ from traditional ones. Instead of growing a virus and weakening it to allow the body to engage its natural defenses, mRNA vaccines use pieces of genetic code to ...

The move drew sharp criticism from medical and health experts. “Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology,” wrote Jake Scott, an ...

That causes the body to create its own antibodies against the virus. Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech created mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic.

The government has canceled nearly $500 million in research grants into the revolutionary technology, which experts believe ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used discredited and misrepresented studies to justify canceling research into ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about a Trump administration decision to end funding for research into vaccines that fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu ...

The US is withdrawing $500m for vaccines for diseases like flu and Covid. Health correspondent James Gallagher asks if it's ...

mRNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there.

An mRNA vaccine does not interact with or affect our DNA, the CDC says. The body discards the mRNA after it's used. How do traditional vaccines work?