When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. MRNA technology was thrust into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but had been in ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, of the University of Pennsylvania, for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material ...

Two of the vaccines we have for COVID-19 have the distinction of being the first mRNA vaccines to see widespread use in ...

As your immunity wanes from previous infection and vaccination, the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 is to get the new COVID vaccine. There are three currently available — is one better ...

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 ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA — a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins — ...

Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, were cited "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19." ...

Clemens Plaschka is the 2024 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, his work has shed light on the ...

Here are two things that are true. The world needs more effective flu vaccines. And pharmaceutical companies that learned of the vaccine-making power of the messenger RNA platform during the Covid-19 ...

On Sunday, professor Katalin Karikó will receive a Nobel Prize for her research on mRNA that led to the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines and saved millions of lives. Though most Nobel laureates ...