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> can therefore harness the power of science to make a vaccine The title is misleading. He didn't really make the vaccine. The peptide sequences were designed
by sampo 6y ago
> can therefore harness the power of science to make a vaccine
The title is misleading. He didn't really make the vaccine. The peptide sequences were designed by people with real biology credentials [1,2]. He ordered the peptides online. All he did himself was mix the peptides with some liquids [3] and spray his nose.
[1] https://radvac.org/ https://radvac.org/
[2] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Estep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Estep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist)
[3] Ok, now I am misleading. There is also chitosan, vinegar, activated charcoal, and more steps than just mixing proteins with liquids.
- text70 6y agoSo what he effectively did is create chitosan nanoparticles loaded with protein/carbon nanoparticles. This, I would imagine, is to allow the proteins to help bypass every protease, lysosome, and other defensive mechanisms that your body and cells have to protect against non-self proteins. These antigens, would then need to be presented by major histocompatability complexes to induce an immune response.