Why do you think the DNA sequence couldn't be different from batch to batch?
Nothing about what I described would be illegal, per se. It's their vaccine, if they want small but specific change from batch to batch, i'm not sure that would be illegal. Police will probably use the immunological profile of suspects regardless of whether they are in on it or not. Intentional or not, this wasn't a problem with previous kinds of vaccine.
wat. mRNA is ssRNA.
I have no idea, but I can take a guess. 1) Because crime scenes will have more information left in them. We can't tell your age all that easily from a blood sample, but if your vaccinated with something suitable for your age range...
and 2) obviously being the spike protein being present on your cell surfaces is like an interacellular backdoor. But that isn't my area of expertiese at all, just pure speculation on my part :)
Ah OK i understand the confusion, and it's from an oversimplification of how the vaccine works. While both the DNA and RNA vaccines are said to produce spike proteins that ultimately present on the surface of the host cell, triggering an immune response, there is also the viral DNA/RNA immune system, sometimes described as the RISC: How Drosha and Dicer work in RNA interference - YouTube
This works with both double-stranded and single-stranded RNA, but the system seems to be much more aggressive against double-stranded, which would make sense as since humans don't make dsRNA very often, while their are whole classes of virus dedicated to it. It's way less "self", because self... (read more)
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I've been a Geneticist for 15 years (academia and industry) and while there are several issues I feel people aren't addressing with regards to Covid-19, the one that has me most concerned is the digital nature of these new vaccines, over the traditional analog method of letting your body figure out which antibodies it is going to develop on its own. So why is this an issue?
With RNA/DNA vaccines, you are essentially programing a person to have a very specific immunological state. An immunity that is perfectly identical/reproducable between individuals vaccinated against... (read 863 more words →)
>Don't people have different immune systems, thus even if you gave them exactly the same 'bits' that wouldn't result in differing outcomes?
Essentially, there is a region of DNA called the Major histocompatibility complex that is, er, the Genetic equivilent of a computer's PRNG, except it actually does shuffle DNA around (twins aren't even identical), so it's true RNG, but static after conception. This random DNA is used by the immune system to make basically every kind of antigen-receptor possible (the thing that does the sensing/binding for a white blood cell). During development, there is a mechanism by which if antigens match, it's assumed to be matching to "self" and it gets whitelisted... (read 711 more words →)