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Why would you assume prions? Isn't mRNA a standard cell product, which can be found in any of your body's cell at any time?
by baxtr 6y ago
Why would you assume prions? Isn't mRNA a standard cell product, which can be found in any of your body's cell at any time?
- Izkata 6y agomRNA encodes instructions for creating proteins, and prions are mis-folded proteins. I think the concern is more, our bodies' natural mRNA is unlikely to create prions or it would be a common occurrence, but lab-created mRNA isn't made of the same parts and doesn't have that millennia of evidence behind it.
- urspx 6y agoIt was posted here before, but you can look at an analysis of the mRNA source code of the Biontech vaccine here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
- maxerickson 6y agoThis lab created mRNA creates a protein from a highly infectious virus, so it's probably not a big additional risk over the medium term (body probably gonna be folding some of them either by vaccination or infection).
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- wrycoder 6y agoPrions are mis-folded proteins which cause a cascade of mis-folding in proteins of the same structure which are already present in the body. The mis-folding affects their biological activity.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoThe “proteins of the same structure” we are talking about here are virus spike proteins. Assuming that there is a pathway that leads to the misfolded form propagating to begin with, the damage is that other spike proteins don’t work. These proteins, however, were never intended to perform any function whatsoever.