The sauce in the @pfizer vaccine: mRNA and how it works inside the cell
How the mRNA vaccines fights the dreaded coronavirus
“How mRNA works: Let’s say you have a book representing the genetic code (the official manual of our individual person). You then scan that book in a copy machine, now you have papers that are an image of the original book. The copy doesn’t change the original book. It can’t.”

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