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The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety of mRNA technology, despite an extensive history of testing. “After a ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week canceled $500 million in government-funded research projects to create new mRNA vaccines. But this week, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. The decades-long push to develop an HIV vaccine has been riddled with setbacks. But ...

The leadership changes arrive as BioNTech reported a 57% rise in net losses for 2025.

The United States may be losing its edge in mRNA technology­­. The technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a ...

mRNA vaccines are a novel type of vaccine that use messenger RNA (mRNA) to induce an immune response against a specific pathogen. Unlike traditional vaccines that use weakened or inactivated viruses ...

HIV vaccine efforts have been slowed by the difficulty of getting neutralizing antibodies to target the correct locations of the diverse variants of HIV. Neutralizing antibodies are proteins produced ...

Angie Hilliker has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. While using mRNA as medicine is new, mRNA has been inside you for your entire life. The cells in your body create mRNAs that ...