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> "DNA vaccines have never been deployed because of serious concerns about the patient’s genes being modified by the vaccine." This is a false statement. Here

> "DNA vaccines have never been deployed because of serious concerns about the patient’s genes being modified by the vaccine." This is a false statement. Here's an article debunking these kinds of claims: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-19-vaccine-modify/false-claim-a-covid-19-vaccine-will-genetically-modify-humans-idUSKBN22U2BZ https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-19-vaccin... From the article: "Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Alliance for Science group, debunked the idea that a DNA vaccine could genetically modify an organism. Lynas told Reuters that no vaccine can genetically modify human DNA. “That’s just a myth, one often spread intentionally by anti-vaccination activists to deliberately generate confusion and mistrust,” he said. “Genetic modification would involve the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell, and vaccines simply don’t do that. Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the production of antibodies.”"

anonunivgrad 6y ago
>Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the production of antibodies Not great for that guy’s credibility that he doesn’t even know what a DNA vaccine is. He’s described the kinds of vaccines in wide use. Not genetic vaccines, which work by introducing genetic sequences that encode the antigen, as opposed to introducing the antigen itself.
- czarnega 6y ago
  Key word being "mostly" in that quote. If you want to hear his description regarding DNA vaccines, just read the next paragraph of the article - quoted below: “The DNA [in DNA vaccines] does not integrate into the cell nucleus so this isn’t genetic modification - if the cells divide they will only include your natural DNA. But this approach is incredibly promising for COVID because it can be scaled up very quickly, and is very versatile - it is easy to synthetically produce DNA sequences that match the required bits of viral genetic code.”
  - anonunivgrad 6y ago
    We can’t rule out reverse transcription in the human body. It’s a very real possibility that introducing RNA results in longer lasting genetic change. Probably not! But I’d rather risk covid myself. So should all fertile people. At least until we know more.

anonunivgrad 6y ago

>Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the production of antibodies Not great for that guy’s credibility that he doesn’t even know what a DNA vaccine is. He’s described the kinds of vaccines in wide use. Not genetic vaccines, which work by introducing genetic sequences that encode the antigen, as opposed to introducing the antigen itself.

czarnega 6y ago
Key word being "mostly" in that quote. If you want to hear his description regarding DNA vaccines, just read the next paragraph of the article - quoted below: “The DNA [in DNA vaccines] does not integrate into the cell nucleus so this isn’t genetic modification - if the cells divide they will only include your natural DNA. But this approach is incredibly promising for COVID because it can be scaled up very quickly, and is very versatile - it is easy to synthetically produce DNA sequences that match the required bits of viral genetic code.”
- anonunivgrad 6y ago
  We can’t rule out reverse transcription in the human body. It’s a very real possibility that introducing RNA results in longer lasting genetic change. Probably not! But I’d rather risk covid myself. So should all fertile people. At least until we know more.