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Why wouldn’t the same speed of vaccine development be possible with protein vaccines?
by epicureanideal 2y ago
Why wouldn’t the same speed of vaccine development be possible with protein vaccines?
- classichasclass 2y agoFor a typical recombinant subunit vaccine, you'd need to splice any new changes into whatever's churning out your proteins (bacteria, yeast, etc.) and then go get those proteins after growing them -- assuming all goes well. For an mRNA vaccine, you can skip the entire protein translation and production step.