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sciolycaptain t1_j9uoxo9 wrote

Reply to comment by Whiterabbit-- in Does the common flu vaccine offer any buffer against H5N1 (Bird Flu)? by Esc_ape_artist

The current influenza vaccines are made by incubating the virus in fertilized chicken eggs. That step takes time. and hundreds of millions of eggs.

With mRNA vaccines, you can just throw templates, nucleotides, and enzymes into a container and get more mRNA for the vaccine (extremely oversimplified)

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LonelyGnomes t1_j9vb0nr wrote

I feel like that’s exactly how I’ve done PCR every time (plus some buffer and magnesium). It’s kinda magic.

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