MythBuster: It's scientifically false that a potential vaccine for COVID19 would change people's DNA and make them 'genetically modified,' according to scientists and researchers. IOL_Lifestyle
Beijing - It's scientifically false that a potential vaccine for Covid-19 would change people's DNA and make them"genetically modified," according to scientists and researchers.To the public's surprise, some claimed that a future Covid-19 vaccine offers access to"injecting genes" into humans and genetically modify them.
DNA provides the code for the cell's activities, while RNA converts that code into proteins to carry out cellular functions, according to publicly available expertise. A future RNA vaccine for Covid-19 would instruct cells to produce proteins that are hoped to"trigger an immune response that would then be able to kill the virus," said an article in The Lancet from July 2020.
Genetic modification requires"the deliberate insertion of foreign DNA into the nucleus of a human cell," Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University's Alliance for Science group, told Reuters, stressing that vaccines cannot do that.
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