Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccine technology burst onto the scene early in the COVID pandemic, leaving many people playing catch-up on the science behind the advance. Within the first six months of ...

Scientists could soon develop personalized cancer vaccines.

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A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the Nobel ...

A new mRNA vaccine against the flu has proven itself more effective than existing vaccines in a new clinical trial. The Pfizer-developed vaccine was found to be 34.5 percent more effective than ...

WashU Medicine researchers have described how mRNA cancer vaccines engage the immune system, through an unconventional pathway involving two subsets of immune cells called dendritic cells.

Researchers found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines significantly increased survival in lung and skin cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy. The vaccine appears to prime the immune system in a powerful, ...