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Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by mike_hearn on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:51PM (#44129642)
Nope. Moderna's share price and general outlook has flatlined at its pre-2020 levels a long time ago. They have no products, they aren't well capitalized and they might liquidate at some point. This vaccine was a no-hoper like all other Moderna's products. That's why the article says: "Shares of Moderna were flat in after-market trading." The smart money wasn't surprised because this was never going to make it to market.

Although this will be interpreted on the left as a partisan move (with the administration lying under duress or something), it's likely that they're telling the truth about why it was cancelled. Trump after all was a big supporter of the Moderna vaccines. But mRNA tech just doesn't work when normal safety standards are re-imposed. I wrote about the problem here a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003338

It's easy to forget that the COVID vaccines were an emergency measure. The way they were judged wasn't how pharma products are normally judged.

Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by Izkata on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:12PM (#44129851)
On the lipid nanoparticle toxicity, I remember an article from either 2020 or 2021 that claimed they had some sort of breakthrough in 2019 that reduced the toxicity, though didn't solve it completely. Unfortunately I don't remember the details and hadn't been able to find it again when I tried a year or two afterwards.
Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by mike_hearn on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:26PM (#44130008)
I looked for such a breakthrough at the time and could find no evidence of such a thing. They also claimed in 2020 that mRNA was some sort of easily programmable bio-software that would let them launch new vaccines within weeks, but that didn't happen either.
Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by leoh on Thursday May 29, 2025 @10:28PM (#44132247)
They currently have a market cap of $10B.
Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by Aloisius on Thursday May 29, 2025 @11:18PM (#44132500)
What does that have to do with well capitalized a company is?

It looks like Moderna have enough capital available to meet their obligations for a while, but they do appear to be burning through it.

Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by mike_hearn on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:43AM (#44133897)
They have a hangover of funds from the COVID times but not much income or investor interest compared to their burn rate.