With a little help, your immune cells can be potent tumor killers. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally ...

Introduction: The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) process is recognized as the quality control of mRNAs to maintain their integrity and production of functional proteins. Readthrough of aberrant ...

Covid vaccines may come with a tantalizing benefit that has nothing to do with the virus they’re designed to protect against: boosting the immune system to better fight tumors during cancer treatment.

Patients with cancer who received mRNA-based COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting immune checkpoint therapy were twice as likely to be alive three years after beginning treatment, according to a ...

The mRNA covid-19 vaccines seem to have an unexpected benefit: extending the lives of people being treated for cancers by boosting the effectiveness of immunotherapy. An analysis of the records of ...

Vaccines that resemble viruses generally produce a stronger immune response, while mRNA versions are much quicker and cheaper to make. Now we are getting the best of both worlds, in the form of mRNA ...

CHONGQING, CHINA - JULY 29: In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the logo of Moderna Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA), a biotechnology company known for its mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics, in ...

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Messenger RNA technology, better known as mRNA technology, made it possible to rapidly deploy a new vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic — much earlier than would otherwise have been possible, saving ...