“A ribonucleic acid vaccine or messenger RNA vaccine is a type of vaccine that uses a copy of a natural chemical called messenger RNA to produce an immune response.”
mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases. mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make the protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. There are so far two approved vaccines available that use this technology. One by Pfizer and the other by Moderna.
Learn more about how these vaccines work below:
