The FDA approved mFLUSIVA, the first mRNA flu vaccine, for adults 50 and older. Clinical trials showed that mFLUSIVA was approximately 27% more effective than the standard flu shot. The mRNA ...

There's limited availability, largely because of late FDA approval ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But even though these firsts took place during the pandemic, mRNA vaccines had been in development for many years before COVID-19 ...

Queen Mary University of London scientists found that adding the Nodamura virus B2 protein to self-amplifying mRNA vaccines ...

What is an RNA vaccine? RNA vaccines, or messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, are a relatively new type of vaccine that delivers mRNA molecules to human cells, instructing them to produce specific antigens.

Australian researchers have completed the first head-to-head comparison of three mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine platforms in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses. BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. In a sign of the mRNA field’s recent dynamism, the Alliance for mRNA Medicines doubled its size ...

Most vaccines contain an infectious pathogen or a part of it, but mRNA vaccines deliver the genetic instructions for our cells to make viral or bacterial proteins themselves. Our immune system ...

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 ...

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 ...