Enlarge / Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. reader comments 77 with Biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for their foundational research showing that chemical modifications to the molecular building blocks of messenger RNA (mRNA) could enable its use for therapeutics and vaccines—a realization crucial to ..
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Enlarge / On May 22, John Timmer (left) moderated a panel featuring Karin Bok (center) and Nathaniel Wang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, “Beyond COVID: What Does mRNA Technology Mean for Disease Treatment?” Ars Technica reader comments 20 with The world of biomedicine has developed a lot of technology that seems a ..
Enlarge / The flu virus, showing the H and N proteins on its surface. reader comments 42 with An mRNA-based flu vaccine designed to offer long-lasting protection against a broad range of influenza viruses is now in a phase I clinical trial, the National Institutes of Health announced this week. The trial brings the remarkable ..
Enlarge / Heart scan. reader comments 112 with The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have proven remarkably safe and effective against the deadly pandemic. But, like all medical interventions, they have some risks. One is that a very small number of vaccinated people develop inflammation of and around their heart—conditions called myocarditis, pericarditis, or the combination of ..
Enlarge / Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference. reader comments 88 with Share this story Florida health officials deleted key data and statistics from a state analysis on the safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, falsely making them appear unsafe for young men, according to draft versions of the analysis obtained by ..
Enlarge / Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks during a press conference at Neo City Academy in Kissimmee, Florida. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 161 with Share this story Florida’s health department opened and then closed an investigation into the state’s polarizing surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, after a tipster claiming to ..
Enlarge / The Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. reader comments 511 with Share this story Two Republican lawmakers in Idaho have introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone in the state to administer mRNA-based vaccines—namely the lifesaving and remarkably safe COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. If passed as ..
Enlarge / Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference in Rockledge, Florida, on August 3, 2022. reader comments 193 with 102 posters participating Share this story Epidemiologists and public health experts spent the past weekend collectively shaking their heads at the latest harmful pronouncement from Florida’s provocative surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, who ..
Enlarge / Moderna states that it doesn’t want to halt production or distribution of Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine, but it does want to be paid a license for its claimed patents. Getty Images reader comments 41 with 34 posters participating Share this story Now that the vaccine race is over and shots are broadly available, Moderna has ..
Enlarge / Boxes of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Florida. reader comments 99 with 46 posters participating Share this story The US Food and Drug Administration limited the use of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine late Thursday, citing the risk of a very rare but severe clotting ..