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> Our inability to do it so far doesn't necessarily imply it's impossible. It's a fairly solid indicator though that it must be tricky or that the body is maki
by peteradio 3y ago
> Our inability to do it so far doesn't necessarily imply it's impossible.
It's a fairly solid indicator though that it must be tricky or that the body is making some tradeoff.
- XorNot 3y agoOr just that we can't stabilize/synthesize the protein usefully in a vaccine with existing techniques. One of the big deals of mRNA is that because you get the proteins made in-vivo (in the body), you inherit all the body's machinery to do this naturally - after all, viral replication requires using that exact same machinery in order to replicate up the viral proteins in the first place.