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sustainable_saltmine 1 point ago +1 / -0

it literally does, that's the whole point. you're editing genes to produce antibodies

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Baryonic 2 points ago +2 / -0

No it doesn't. It would need an enzyme called transcriptase or a coinfection with HIV or HPV or some other virus that has transcriptase. But that would be counterproductive for it because the cell would be generating spike proteins that your immune system then attacks.

A cell taking in this lipid raft and running the code in the mRNA vaccine is going to be killed by the immune system. It won't be around to do anything else.

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Mad_Hattie [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Aren't vaccines just introducing the dead virus to make your body produce the antibodies?

Why a Code?

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Baryonic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Vaccines use virus particles - busted up viruses or they use viruses whose replication capability has been damaged to make them slow or non replicating. This works for most viruses.

Because of the shape and conformation of coronavirus - breaking up the cell particles often has the side effect of antibodies being produced to lock into side channel or off angle associations with the main spike protein complex. These off channel residues can then be used to stabilize the virus such that the receptor affinity increases.

This is the case for antibody dependent enhancement - which is a big problem with Dengue fever and many coronaviruses.

The vaccine causes your cells to generate the specific receptor protein in such a way that the likelihood of getting a bad shape exposure is minimized. As such - the antibodies created are more likely to be able to gum up the works and glom onto any viruses they encounter with spike protein conformations defined in the vaccine.

This decreases the total active spike receptors and gives the immune system time to spin up when exposed to a live infection.