The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

A biotech that lost federal funding Tuesday following Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s edict that his agency’s ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using ...

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who served under Trump’s first administration, criticized Kennedy’s move to cancel $500 million for mRNA projects. Adams said in a post on social media platform X ...

This was one in a continuing line of moves that has put RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism into public policy, though scientists ...

The mRNA molecule eventually breaks down in the body. The Cleveland Clinic reports that the risks of mRNA vaccines include pain or swelling at the injection site, fever, fatigue, headaches, muscle ...

Moderna Inc. shares are selling off Wednesday, after the Trump administration took aim at the science behind the ...

Kennedy said Tuesday that the terminated contracts were worth nearly $500 million. Among them is an award to the University of Texas Medical Branch and the biotechnology company Moderna to develop an ...

The Trump administration is decreasing funding for the development of mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines, which were crucial in ...

The targeting of the vaccine technology once considered revolutionary follows intense criticism by conservatives and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy ...

So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel ...