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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by peteradio on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:07PM (#35957046)
> Our inability to do it so far doesn't necessarily imply it's impossible.

It's a fairly solid indicator though that it must be tricky or that the body is making some tradeoff.

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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by XorNot on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:05PM (#35957336)
Or just that we can't stabilize/synthesize the protein usefully in a vaccine with existing techniques.

One of the big deals of mRNA is that because you get the proteins made in-vivo (in the body), you inherit all the body's machinery to do this naturally - after all, viral replication requires using that exact same machinery in order to replicate up the viral proteins in the first place.

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