Inside the new mRNA vaccines for COVID-19
How the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work to prime the human immune system to fight SARS-CoV-2 By Jim Fessenden December 18, 2020
Health care workers across the nation this week are the first Americans to receive the new mRNA vaccine by Pfizer/BioNTech to protect against COVID-19, and the Moderna vaccine appears soon to follow, with emergency approval by the Food and Drug Administration possible any day. The new mRNA vaccines are the first of their kind and researchers at UMass Medical School are among the leading RNA biologists in the world. The Medical School is home to the