Vaccines using mRNA technology weren’t immune to the latest round of federal research cuts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he’s pulling the plug on ...

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 ...

Senior Manufacturing Science Associate Diane Morgan performs an analysis of plasmid DNA at Vernal Biosciences in Colchester on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger U.S. Health and Human ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision this week to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in mRNA vaccine funding will leave the United States unprepared for the ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his agency will be cutting funding to mRNA development, calling the vaccine technology "ineffective" and claiming it poses more risks ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a plan to end mRNA vaccine work funded by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a major escalation of ...

To many scientists and doctors, messenger RNA vaccines are an incredible feat of modern medicine. But to top health leaders in the Trump administration, shots made with the technology pose more risks ...

Pancreatic cancer has long been oncology’s most stubborn adversary. Fewer than 13% of patients survive five years after ...

The United States may be losing its edge in mRNA technology­­. The technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a ...