Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he's pulling the plug on nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines. Here's how they work.

WASHINGTON (AP) — So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel Prize-winning technology to try to develop vaccines and ...

Some genetic mutations that are expected to completely stop a gene from working surprisingly cause only mild or even no symptoms. Researchers in previous studies have discovered one reason why: cells ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...

HOUSTON – The federal government is ending funding for some vaccine development projects using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, a move that could affect local researchers and ongoing projects.

Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they've encountered may be inaccurate, lack context, be unproven, or be demonstrably false. But ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East ...