Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines offer new hope. We explain

Personalized mRNA cancer vaccines are showing early success in clinical trials, fueling optimism in the fight against cancer.

A new era in the fight against cancer? Two doctors explain the mRNA vaccine breakthrough

Bianna speaks to Dr. Hussein Tawbi, oncologist and researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who leads the Phase 3 melanoma vaccine trial, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former Obama ...
Drug Target Review

Why more ribosomes can mean less protein in mRNA therapeutics

What happens when the cellular machinery making therapeutic proteins slows down? New research in Nature shows why translation ...
Medical Xpress

New findings may explain why mRNA vaccines provide limited protection against omicron

Vaccination protects against severe COVID-19 but not against infection. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital now show that protection against infection with the new omicron ...
Medical Xpress

Immune barrier may explain why mRNA shots struggle to block nasal infection

A consistent biological barrier that stops the immune system from making the antibodies most needed to protect the nose and throat from respiratory viruses has been identified. The discovery, led by ...
nytimes.com

5 Questions About mRNA Vaccines, Answered

We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine. By Nina Agrawal Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines ...
The Conversation

First mRNA flu shot approved by FDA bodes well for improving drugs of the future – though a few hurdles remain before mRNA can move beyond vaccines

Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process ...
The Conversation

Vaccines using mRNA can protect farm animals against diseases traditional ones may not – and there are safeguards to ensure they won’t end up in your food

While effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions about ...