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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by labawi on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:39PM (#28804936)
Does that include the engineered quasi-mRNA in the vaccine, that was specially crafted to evade certain types of degradation?

The vaccine is not and purposefully does not act like normal mRNA. It's not even made of the same 4 building blocks.

Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by ceejayoz on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:54PM (#28832940)
> Does that include the engineered quasi-mRNA in the vaccine, that was specially crafted to evade certain types of degradation?

Yes; that's why it has to be stored at such a cold temperature, to stave off that degradation.

The "engineered quasi-mRNA" aspect of things isn't to evade degradation, but initial immune response so it can avoid being broken down before it can express itself. https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-2-billion...

> Assembling mRNA using pseudouridine, a nucleoside variant that occurs naturally in the body, greatly reduced the tendency of immune sentinels called dendritic cells to shoot out inflammatory molecules in response, they reported in 2005.