Perhaps the most significant impact of America’s cuts to mRNA research will be on the world’s ability to produce vaccines against a future pandemic https://t.co/8eYRP4VQkS ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s health secretary, will weaken the world’s ability to fight disease by cutting funding to mRNA research https://t.co/uGxgRx88NtIllustration: Lucy Jones https://t.co/LqpkmHwblF ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . announced yesterday the cutting of nearly $500 million of grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines.mRNA shots were first used during the CO 19 pandemic. They instruct the body to produce a fragment of a virus which then sets off an immune response. Unlike traditional vaccines, they can be made within months and quickly altered as the virus changes.Many scientists and infectious disease experts quickly denounce this move and stress the importance of mRNA rese ...