mRNA vaccine

Vaccines are meant to help, not harm. So you can imagine our surprise when we first heard of the intriguing term gaining popularity among the anti-vaccine crowd: turbo-cancer.

I explained that while we’ve been trying to create a universal flu vaccine for years without success, similar efforts are ongoing for COVID-19.

We have learned a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the four years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the virus replicates its RNA and mutates in every infection, its spike proteins keep changing.

It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer dumb opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage.

It is not uncommon for legislators to introduce bills that they know won’t pass but that have symbolic value of some sort, like renaming a bridge or freeway to honor a constituent.  Every so often, however, they propose something that they in

Two years ago, many of you probably had never even heard of many of these terms. Now they're flying around left, right, and center, as are misstatements, misunderstandings, and misdeeds.

It's only a case study, but the implications are intriguing.

It's been a tough time to be an anti-vaxxer, and it just got tougher.

Andrew Wakefield is the disgraced former doctor who was kicked off the UK's medical register following his fraudulent research that claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.