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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by manofmanysmiles on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:29PM (#28387281)
I’m not saying the vaccines do this, just that it’s theoretically possible to make a gene therapy that does modify DNA.
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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by rsfern on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:37AM (#28391318)
A gene therapy, sure. After all, that is the basis of CRISPR gene editing [0].

One of the key differences is the mRNA vaccines are not delivered with the necessary enzymes to actually cleave and splice DNA, e.g. [1].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas9

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