News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability. Parent comment

Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by phkahler on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:38AM (#26476506)
How does it recognize corruption? Certainly some could be processed with incomplete or incorrect results. It's really hard (probably impossible) to show that there will not be negative effects from that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by taipan100 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:56PM (#26483648)
Valid mRNA has a start codon and a stop codon. Without these mRNA will be broken down and untranslated. However without translation the vaccine will be useless. So while unintended translation is unlikely it is possible that efficacy would be impacted.
[ Parent | on HN ]