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RNA vaccine

vaccine that transfects synthetic RNA, reprogramming cells to make foreign protein that stimulates an adaptive immune response
Class type of: medication, biopharmaceutical, nucleic acid-based vaccine Q85795487

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
vaccine type, public health[4]
Inception
2020[14]
Subclass of
medication, biopharmaceutical, nucleic acid-based vaccine, RNA therapeutics[5][6][7][8]
Has use
vaccination[9]
Described by source
RNA Vaccines for COVID-19, RNA Vaccines in Cancer Treatment, RNA Vaccination Therapy: Advances in an Emerging Field, mRNA vaccination as a safe approach for specific protection from type I allergy, mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology, mRNA Vaccine Delivery Using Lipid Nanoparticles, mRNA vaccines: intellectual property landscape, mRNA vaccine CV9103 and CV9104 for the treatment of prostate cancer, mRNA Vaccine with Antigen-Specific Checkpoint Blockade Induces an Enhanced Immune Response against Established Melanoma[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
Discoverer or inventor
Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman[2][3]
Has part(s)
ribonucleic acid, expression vector, messenger RNA, solid lipid nanoparticle[10][11][12][13]
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T032439Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
Location of creation
BioNTech[15]
Side effect
reactogenicity[25]
🏷️ Also known as
en RNA vaccines en messenger RNA vaccine en mRNA-based vaccine en mRNA vaccine en mRNA vaccines en RNA vaccine ar لقاح الحمض النووي الريبوزي المرسال ar تلقيح الرنا cs RNA vakcína da RNA-vaccine da messenger RNA-vaccine da mRNA-vaccine de RNA-Impfstoff de mRNA-Impfstoff el Εμβόλια RNA es Vacuna de ARN es Vacuna de ARNm fa واکسن ریبونوکلئیک اسید fr vaccin à ARN he חיסון RNA
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
RNA vaccine-en.svg ↗
Described at URL
apnews.com
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11j2xhhftr
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
RNA-vaksine
MeSH descriptor ID
D000087503
MeSH tree code
D12.776.828.868.228.500, D20.215.894.865.450.500, D23.050.865.450.500, D20.215.894.860.900.450
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
1988620094
Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID
rna-vaccines
Topic's main category
Category:RNA vaccines
UMLS CUI
C5544360
WikiProjectMed ID
MRNA vaccine

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 5
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273 vaccine, zorecimeran, HGC019, Lunar-COV19
Has part(s) 4
ribonucleic acid, messenger RNA, expression vector, solid lipid nanoparticle
Subclass of 3
medication, biopharmaceutical, RNA therapeutics
Discoverer or inventor 2
Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman
← Field of work 2
Drew Weissman, Moderna
Has use 1
vaccination
Location of creation 1
BioNTech
Topic's main category 1
Category:RNA vaccines
← Category's main topic 1
Category:RNA vaccines
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Summary

RNA vaccine is a vaccine type[1].

Related Entities

BioNTech Drew Weissman Katalin Karikó Moderna

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  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . apnews.com. apnews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . science.sciencemag.org. science.sciencemag.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Isadora Dela Justina Brites Ramos · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman
    Side effect → reactogenicity
    Described by source → RNA Vaccines for COVID-19, RNA Vaccines in Cancer Treatment, RNA Vaccination Therapy: Advances in an Emerging Field +6
    Has part(s) → ribonucleic acid, expression vector, messenger RNA +1
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: public health"
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