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Could they put it in an mRNA vaccine so my body can break down plastic?
by lawlessone 1y ago
Could they put it in an mRNA vaccine so my body can break down plastic?
- Arubis 1y agoThe plastic in your body might be _less_ toxic than paracetamol.
- lawlessone 1y agoProbably true , but my body can already remove the paracetamol
- Arubis 1y agoThat’d actually be a neat balance to figure out. Would the increased short-term liver toxicity be better over the long run than having bloodborne microplastics persist?
- xattt 1y ago> … can already remove the paracetamol In amounts less than 4 grams every 24 hours.
- oharapj 1y agoDepending on how quickly the body would convert the plastic in this highly unrealistic hypothetical, that might work out just fine
- colechristensen 1y agoThe major part of this discovery was about something that e. coli already did on its own before genetic modification, so no not particularly. They might be able to engineer a symbiotic bacterium to live in your blood (there's a lot of doubt here), or more likely and less risky engineer a bacterium that consumed microplastics to live in your gut delivered as a probiotic or as a "vaccine" that you ate that would infect your existing microbiome. And not an mRNA vaccine, those are kind of too simple and are mainly there to annoy the immune system. You would either use a virus to inject new genes into bacteria or insert plasmids into bacteria in a lab which would later be consumed.