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Driving RNA vaccine innovation through microbiome insights is an emerging frontier that moves beyond pathogen-only thinking and toward vaccines designed ...

How do vaccines work? Here's what medical experts want you to know about safety and efficacy.

A vaccine combined with Keytruda is associated with a 49% reduction in the risk of recurrence or death. Among patients with advanced melanoma, long-term data have shown that a personalized mRNA cancer ...

New research shows that lipid nanoparticles used in mRNA vaccines may deliver RNA more effectively when their structure is disorganised.

As RNA therapeutics evolve far beyond their vaccine origins, a new generation of scientists and manufacturers is rethinking how to produce these complex medicines safely, efficiently, and at scale.

Researchers at MIT have just developed a new lipid nanoparticle that super-enhances the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine in mice to a hundred times its stand-alone effectiveness, thus offering ...

Programmable nucleic acid nanoparticles boost vaccine immune responses as effectively as standard adjuvants in mice while avoiding the autoimmune risks that limit existing alternatives. (Nanowerk ...

A study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...