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Milk_Man21 t1_j468v7p wrote

Could you imagine if, after a few generations, the body says "Hey, this is a far more effective way of doing something we already do. Let's take the vaccine data and put into our DNA!". I doubt that would happen, if it's even possible (is it? Anyone here know?), but that would be awesome!

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MarleyBerd t1_j46inr7 wrote

No it’s not possible in eukaryotic organisms that’s not how the immune system works. Immune memory is part of a selection process of reactive cells. mRNA vaccines work by having cells near the injection site temporarily express a foreign protein that the immune cells don’t recognize as “self” and then form a response against. Oddly enough, that IS how some bacterial immune systems work and is the basis of the endogenous bacterial CRISPR system that we now use to edit human cells.

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Ishmael128 t1_j46n06x wrote

Yup, the immune system need to learn “self” before it can learn “non-self”, so I imagine if you constitutively expressed these vaccines, your rate of cancer would increase.

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