mRNA vaccine developer Moderna (MRNA) is climbing nearly 5% in early trading today after it was awarded about $590 million by the U.S. government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on ...

CureVac and partner GSK are, meanwhile, also developing an mRNA-based flu vaccine, but are a little further back in development, as their shot is in phase 1 testing.

The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But where does translation take place within a cell?

The candidate uses the same basic mRNA technology implemented in Moderna’s covid-19 vaccines to accomplish this. mRNA vaccines prompt the body’s cells to produce a target protein that’s then ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Holz and her colleagues were inspired by the success of mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. “By using an mRNA-based vaccine, you can ...

In a new study published recently in the journal Cell Reports, Yale researchers reveal that mRNA, or messenger RNA, plays a significant role in cell migration, a duty that also dramatically expands ...