The mRNA technology faces growing doubts among Republicans, including people around President Donald Trump. Legislation aimed ...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists raced to develop vaccines in record time. The first reliable vaccines, using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, were a historic breakthrough — so much ...

One avenue for new vaccine development is mucosal vaccines. In theory, dosing the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

Cancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to organs, is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Once cancer spreads to multiple ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA "booster" as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have developed an mRNA “booster” as a potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too ...

A child with a rare genetic disorder — spinal muscular atrophy type I — was treated prenatally for the first time. Courtesy of Jakob Owens  via Unsplash During an amniocentesis test, a long, thin ...