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Why is booster shot needed when mRNA vaccines can induce memory cells?
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If so, then there is no need to have a third booster shot.
Why do you think this? Consider chicken pox/shingles. Clearly, infection with chicken pox once leads to immunity lasting for many many …
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Can mRNAs modify our DNA (publication misunderstanding)?
Occasionally, they make an error and convert some of the other mRNA in the cell into DNA and insert it into the genome. … It turned out there was a big technical problem with this (hence the wishy washy conclusions of the paper) - the sequencing sample preparation process will also rarely splice two mRNA sequences together …
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Why are mRNA vaccines not yet available against other diseases?
A few-year-old review that might be useful is:
Pardi, N., Hogan, M., Porter, F. et al. mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology. … Nat Rev Drug Discov 17, 261–279 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd.2017.243
The tricky part of creating an mRNA vaccine once the "platform" has been developed remains exactly what mRNA sequence do you …