What if mRNA vaccines could be made more powerful and less irritating? Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to do just that—by tweaking a key molecule in the vaccine’s ...

As millions of people know firsthand, the most common side effect of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot is inflammation: ...

In multiple experiments, C-a16 lipids, which contain a phenol group, outperformed LNPs used in currently available mRNA ...

Phenol Molecule (National Institutes of Health) The simplest phenol-the phenol, you might say-is also known as carbolic acid, and it’s pretty nasty stuff.

The extent of an increase in the GAC adsorptive capacity is in accordance with the ease of oxidation of these compounds. However, substituting a nitro group on the parent phenol molecule suppressed ...