{"id":344298,"date":"2025-08-11T17:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344298"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:50:34","slug":"mrna-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mrna-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"mRNA Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had canceled $500 million worth of grants and contracts for mRNA vaccine development.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About\u00a0mRNA Vaccine<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An mRNA vaccine uses messenger RNA to provide instructions for the body\u2019s cells to produce a harmless fragment of a pathogen.<\/li>\n<li>This approach does not introduce the actual pathogen but instead trains the immune system to recognize and fight it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How mRNA Vaccines Work<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344305\" style=\"width: 1067px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-344305\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mrna.png?resize=750%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mRNA\" width=\"750\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mrna.png?w=1067&amp;ssl=1 1067w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mrna.png?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mrna.png?resize=1024%2C583&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mrna.png?resize=768%2C438&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- UK Health Security Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The mRNA is enclosed in lipid nanoparticles, which protect it and help it enter human cells.<\/li>\n<li>The vaccine is injected into a muscle, where the lipid nanoparticles fuse with cells and release the mRNA.<\/li>\n<li>Inside the cell\u2019s cytoplasm, ribosomes read the mRNA instructions and produce the specific pathogen fragment, such as the spike protein in COVID-19.<\/li>\n<li>The produced protein fragment is displayed on the cell\u2019s surface for the immune system to detect.<\/li>\n<li>The immune system recognizes the fragment as foreign and produces antibodies and memory cells to provide long-term protection.<\/li>\n<li>The mRNA is temporary and breaks down naturally after it has delivered its instructions, without affecting the body\u2019s DNA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had canceled $500 million worth of grants and contracts for mRNA vaccine development. About\u00a0mRNA Vaccine An mRNA vaccine uses messenger RNA to provide instructions for the body\u2019s cells to produce a harmless fragment of a pathogen. This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mrna-vaccine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">mRNA Vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-344298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}