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 ...

In two experiments, researchers have found that introducing people to "mental models" about how mRNA vaccination works and ...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines work by instructing a small number of a person’s cells to make specific proteins. In the case of the approved mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, the cells make spike protein ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were ...

Michael Mitchell, an associate professor of bioengineering at the University, is developing novel lipid nanoparticles that can deliver mRNA inside human cells, which could pave the way for therapies ...

Chennai, Dec. 5 -- Highlights: ...

Researchers have developed a new lipid for delivering mRNA that is safer and more effective than current technologies. By changing the chemistry of one key ingredient in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), ...

Researchers found that using mental models—visual, verbal, or animated—helps people understand mRNA vaccination science, counter misconceptions, and reduce misinformation spread.

Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they've encountered may ...

There's a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases.

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 ...