The United States led the world in developing the technology that beat the COVID-19 pandemic. Action from lawmakers may leave that legacy—and a $70 billion market—behind.

The president said the project will result in "over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately ... could be used to detect cancers and customize mRNA vaccines to treat them within 48 hours.

This is false and revives a debunked conspiracy theory on efforts to vaccinate people unknowingly through food; mRNA vaccines are not currently approved for use in livestock in the United States ...

Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.