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If you think last week's decision by the federal government to halt $500 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again.

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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday that it will cancel $500 million worth of projects dedicated to designing messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for pandemic preparedness.

The Department of Health and Human Services will pull $500 million in research funding for cutting-edge vaccine technology, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday evening. The canceled work ...

The Trump administration is terminating 22 contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines and winding down additional federal investments in mRNA technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

They’re turning their backs on a technology thought to have saved millions of lives—with the potential to save many more. This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By ...

WASHINGTON (WLS) -- Medical experts in the Chicago area are weighing in on the decision by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to cancel $500 million in funding for mRNA ...

Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins. Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology ...

Researchers at IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence, the longest ever ...