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But mRNA technology is not a gene therapy. As an analogy: mRNA technology is NOT like sending a saboteur into a factory to change the blue prints / designs /
by oezi 5y ago
But mRNA technology is not a gene therapy.
As an analogy:
mRNA technology is NOT like sending a saboteur into a factory to change the blue prints / designs / masters records (=genes) of the factory.
Rather it is like dropping a bunch work instructions (RNA snippets) over the factory and have some workers (cells) pick them up and build the things described there-in.
mRNA tech isn't the same as CRISPR.
The worst that could happen is that a work instruction that we inject becomes self-replicating (a virus), but because it can't replicate to begin with it there is no way that it mutates to gain such an ability.