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10 Jan 2021 12:33 #388246 by ketchim
There are multiple methods - traditional and experimental - for making vaccines, but Moderna and Pfizer

use an experimental approach based on something called mRNA

(or Messenger RiboNucleic Acid).

The terminology is a mouthful, but it describes a simpler, swifter approach to vaccine production.

And it was boosted over the clinical finish line by the pandemic.

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10 Jan 2021 12:35 #388247 by ketchim
Vaccination is fundamentally based on "showing" your immune system the disease-causing agent,

so it can form a biological memory and be primed to fight it.

For many existing virus vaccines :

this has meant producing versions or pieces of the virus itself -

often snippets of viral protein stripped of their disease-causing ability.

These are grown inside chicken eggs, packaged up and injected.

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10 Jan 2021 12:36 #388248 by ketchim
"To grow enough of those things can take a very long time - sometimes years,"

explains Prof Robert Langer, one of the founders of Moderna

and a professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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10 Jan 2021 12:37 - 10 Jan 2021 12:53 #388249 by ketchim
"With mRNA - you use the body as a factory to make that protein.

So rather than have a giant factory with all these eggs to grow your proteins

you just make the mRNA, give it to the patient and the patient does everything else."

Messenger RNA is a short sequence of coded genetic instructions for the protein you want a cell to make.
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10 Jan 2021 15:40 - 10 Jan 2021 16:37 #388260 by ketchim
You Folks following my threads

will know about the two Turkish born Doctors that founded BioNTech in Germany ~
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10 Jan 2021 16:36 - 10 Jan 2021 16:37 #388263 by ketchim
I say, Convert him into a Conspiracy Theorist hahahahahaha
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10 Jan 2021 17:16 - 10 Jan 2021 17:19 #388265 by ketchim
ketchim need to think like you ??
but him prefer Plantain Chips and Aloo Chips hahahahahaha
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11 Jan 2021 14:46 - 11 Jan 2021 14:47 #388288 by ketchim
Mapoui don't have any excuses to be harping on Vaccines and chicken egg and foetus et cetera

SINCE this is a FIRST !
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11 Jan 2021 14:57 - 11 Jan 2021 14:58 #388289 by ketchim

Mapoui unfortunately is from Trinidad SO unable to follow Science lol
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13 Jan 2021 14:02 - 13 Jan 2021 14:03 #388317 by ketchim
Mapoui still pretending and LYING about DNA
Even though he replied on this thread.
He even IGNORED one of the Scientist is a GUYANA ..."Man of Colour"
on his other disingenuous thread with that title !
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