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Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by usrusr on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:05AM (#25578771)
I don't know, but I think that if it was just 1:1 it would be far easier to get the protein manufactured by cells living in a petri dish (that can be subjected to much more drastic changes) and inject those protein copies directly instead of mRNA wrapped in some fancy vector molecules.
Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by tachyonbeam on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:10AM (#25578800)
The fancy vector molecules are just oils. AFAIK the reason they use mRNA is precisely because it's easy to make lots of it quickly through simple chemical processes. Proteins are much more complex, and harder to synthesize using traditional chemical processes.