Dr. Drew Weissman, left, a physician-scientist, and biochemist Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could ...

The study examined 180 patients with advanced lung cancer who received a COVID vaccine within 100 days before or after beginning immunotherapy, as well as 704 similar patients who did not. Vaccinated ...

Researchers at Penn Medicine have developed an mRNA vaccine that could potentially cure allergies by stopping allergens from ...

Researchers have used an experimental mRNA therapy to make old immune cells in mice behave as if they were young again, ...

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 ...

Researchers in Philadelphia reacted with alarm this week when the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is cutting $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development. But the ...

Two scientists whose work led to the mRNA vaccines against covid-19 have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the prize for their ...

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 ...

A trio of mRNA molecules could help guard against the harmful effects of aging on immune cells, a study in mice finds. A new ...

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 ...

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." ...