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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Melody Schreiber

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

a lab worker conducts research
An assistant conducts cancer vaccine research at Moderna’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2024. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

As US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer research.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccines have shown promise in treating and preventing cancers that have often been difficult to address, such as pancreatic cancer, brain tumors and others.

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