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Thanks. If I'm correct then the mRNA vaccine introduces proteins that reflect the virus and trigger the immune response? I think I was reading the article as mo

• Vecr 5y ago
  The article is talking about multiple possible uses for mRNA drugs, including prophylaxis and non-prophylaxis vaccines (you would not take a vaccine for a cancer before you get it, unless it is to prevent an infection that could cause cancer (HepB, HPV, etc)), and mRNA therapeutics, including ones from protein replacement. For protein replacement, you would have to take the mRNA often, because mRNA degrades. Your immune system has memory, but you won't keep making random proteins after the mRNA goes away.
• esyir 5y ago
  You're about right. the mRNA vaccine introduces mRNA, which is taken up by cells. The cells then use the mRNA to produce the proteins of interest, which then can be presented to immune cells to start the immune response. mRNA is sort analogous to code that compiles to proteins
• weaksauce 5y ago
  Kinda... the mRNA is the code for the cells to make the protein that resembles the virus. traditionally it was a virus or a part of a virus that was made that gets directly killed by the immune system for being different.