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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
That is not how I understand it, and the difference in our takes is exactly what I was trying to learn about in order to be able to logically, carefully discuss. The strand of mRNA delivered by the vaccine is the specific chunk of the viral RNA that instruct our own cellular machinery to assemble the spike protein out of the spare parts floating around in our cells. The techniques are similar in the sense that they both use types of RNA to do their thing but to compare them is like pointing to a connecting rod in an air compressor and saying it might accidentally turn it into an engine.
Unintended consequences are also a real thing, I read the spike protein article you posted with great interest. I'm keeping my popcorn emoji close by for the follow-up research that falls out of that experiment. Still, let's not conflate CRISPR with the mechanism of these mRNA vaccines.
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Every article I read says CRISPR, so maybe that's why? [emoji848] If they are completely unrelated than the media has just meshed them all together.
"The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are the first vaccines to be activated by mRNA. These vaccines build on the breakthroughs of the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. This technology is also being used to treat people who have sickle cell anemia, certain cancers, Huntington's disease and congenital blindness, and will likely be used to treat many other diseases in the future. There are many other CRISPR-related breakthroughs on the horizon and a lot of moral and ethical questions to deal with about the editing of the basic element of human life."
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/974751834
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