Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?

Re:Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resist... by IIIIIIIIIIIIIII on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:06PM (#16354171)

Shouldn't I be able to edit this for a little while? Strange, only two minutes later and I can't edit. It had no replies.

I tried adding this quote from the linked paper:

> Thus, IgG elimination occurs mostly through intracellular catabolism by lysosomal degradation to amino acids after uptake by either pinocytosis, an unspecific fluid phase endocytosis, or by a receptor-mediated endocytosis process.

Explanation of two words in there that maybe not everybody knows:

pinocytosis: The ingestion of liquid into a cell by the budding of small vesicles from the cell membrane.

endocytosis: The taking in of matter by a living cell by invagination of its membrane to form a vacuole.

EDIT: I can still edit this comment more than five minutes later, as expected. Hmm... why could I not do that with my first comment...?

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Re:Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resist... by vanderZwan on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:53PM (#16354393)

If this was your literal first comment, it could be some form of SPAM or trolling protection

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Re:Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resist... by IIIIIIIIIIIIIII on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:11PM (#16354502)

It was the 2nd comment, and since it's not been very long since the first one I remember that I edited it quite extensively, many times, for well over five minutes. This time I could start editing but could not (successfully) submit the edited text just two minutes after posting the comment, according to the time printed just above my comment after I submitted the edit (which only showed the text before the edit, and the "Edit" link was now gone).

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Re:Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resist... by vanderZwan on Sunday February 11, 2018 @07:43PM (#16355702)

Then I don't know. You normally have around one hour to edit, IIRC.

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