The first mRNA vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) was recently created in less than 18 months—but how do mRNA animal vaccines work, and how would this one be deployed in an emergency? Subscribe ...

On Sept. 4, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, where he is expected to face questions about his vaccine ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...

Deborah Fuller receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is co-founder and a scientific advisor for two biotech companies developing nucleic acid vaccine technologies that are not ...

Since the announcements by federal health authorities earlier this year that federal mRNA vaccine funding will be curtailed, a fierce debate has taken place around the future of mRNA-based vaccines ...

Dr. Bright is a virologist and a former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, ...

Messenger RNA technology, better known as mRNA technology, made it possible to rapidly deploy a new vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic — much earlier than would otherwise have been possible, saving ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider a new mRNA flu vaccine made by Moderna, the company revealed in a statement on Tuesday. The vaccine uses mRNA to inoculate the ...

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are shown in 2023. It was formulated using mRNA technology. Lee S. Weissman USA TODAY NETWORK As a longtime pediatrician in South Carolina, I am deeply ...

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At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced heated questions from numerous senators about his vaccine policies, ...