{"id":10025,"date":"2025-08-13T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:13:25","slug":"mrna-technology-could-hold-hope-for-fighting-cancer-but-future-is-in-doubt-under-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/mrna-technology-could-hold-hope-for-fighting-cancer-but-future-is-in-doubt-under-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"mRNA technology could hold hope for fighting cancer, but future is in doubt under RFK Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mrna-vaccine-defunding-cancer-treatment-rfk-jr\/\">CBS News<\/a> If you think last week&#8217;s decision by the federal government to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-halts-500-million-for-mrna-vaccine-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"halt 0 million in funding, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">halt 0 million in funding<\/a>\u00a0for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These types of vaccines&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/genetics\/understanding\/therapy\/mrnavaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"use, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use<\/a>&nbsp;messenger RNA, or mRNA, to prompt the body to make proteins that induce an antibody response to protect against a pathogen. The science behind it is also being studied for a wide range of other uses, from fighting cancer to treating autoimmune conditions and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health experts have criticized the move to defund this research, pointing to the impact it will have on America&#8217;s ability to develop breakthroughs against deadly or debilitating diseases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"qY Pfxe \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News If you think last week&#8217;s decision by the federal government to\u00a0halt 0 million in funding\u00a0for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again.\u00a0 These types of vaccines&nbsp;use&nbsp;messenger RNA, or mRNA, to prompt the body to make proteins that induce an antibody response to protect against a pathogen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}