That's fantastic!
Here's a question for you, Flexacon and any other person involved in biology and medicine work.
What are the possible risks you could forsee occurring by using taking a vaccine that utilizes mRNA?
I've read all the articles put out by the CDC and picked up a few of my old molecular biology textbooks from my undergrad years, but this concept of using mRNA as a central component to a vaccine has never been done before, so there's not much to it that I can find.
I did read an article published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (a division of the NIH), that said that risks from using an mRNA vaccine include: the bio-distribution and persistence of the induced immunogen expression; possible development of auto-reactive antibodies; and toxic effects of any non-native nucleotides and delivery system components.
It led me to think that just maybe, the use of an mRNA to promote antibody development if not carefully controlled, could possibly incite a cytokine storm.
What do you folks think? I know G_Thang has a degree in Bioengineering if I'm not mistaken. Would love to read everyone's thoughts on this hypothesis.
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Iong term effects no ones knows, that's why it's a worry,,,
One thing some people seem to misunderstand is that the vaccine isn't genetically modifying anything it is simply a piece of RNA code (very small) that is inserted into a cell that is read by a ribosome (which makes proteins) thereby producing a virus related protein stimulating an immune response... mRNA is naturally occurring it's how our cells transfer the code from our genome to proteins which carry out the tasks...
One thing that is a concern in my mind is that there are regulatory steps after transcription (mRNA production) molecules such as Micro rna that regulate mRNA and downstream protein production what role could the introduced mRNA play in these regulatory pathways? These pathways are relatively newly discovered and not well understood.
This leads to one of the more likely serious adverse effects which is immune disregulation.. potentially chronic low grade issues, auto reactivity which is where antibodies are produced that target "self" destroying tissue that is healthy...
Not a lot is known about these processes and things like auto immune diseases have serious consequences and no real effective treatments.
The point is No one knows... Which is why long term trials of these new molecules should be carried out before widespread use.
