It is true that mRNA is unstable in aqueous solution. However, RNA activates the immune system. Indeed, if memory serves, the immunogenicity of RNA molecules was one of the major problems that had to be overcome to develop a safe and effective mRNA-based #CovidVaccine.
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I worked with RNA in the early 2000s, but I’m also sane enough to know that medicine and technology has gotten better in the past 20 years. Reading these posts from
@ProfTimNoakes , I hope dementia doesn’t hit me the same way as it seems to be with this dude, when I get older. -
I've been working with RNA on and off since the early 1990s (particularly in the early 2000s, when I did a lot of quantitative real time RT-PCR); so I know the basics, at least, well.
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I'm really surprised that he hasn't blocked me yet. I must not be doing a good job. Either that, or he likes the attention that being quote-tweeted by someone with my number of followers can bring. I don't know which.
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