Timeline for Can the spike protein created by the Covid mRNA vaccines be created independently of the human body, and is there a higher cost to that?
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| Oct 9, 2021 at 3:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 31, 2021 at 9:10 | vote | accept | vfclists | ||
| Mar 30, 2021 at 11:21 | comment | added | jakebeal | @vfclists Come support the SynBio Stackexchange proposal? As soon as we hit 100 people with 200+ reputation, an interdisciplinary site will be launched where questions like these are clearly on-topic. area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/125068/… | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 11:18 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 5:26 | comment | added | tyersome |
@Amanda — If you want to have a discussion about how the site works please use the Biology Meta site rather than antagonizing Bryan (who like all moderators is a volunteer). ——— However, I encourage you to first familiarize yourself with how this site is supposed to work by taking the tour and then carefully reading through the help center starting with with How to Ask and How to Answer questions effectively. In particular, note that Not all questions can or should be answered here. Thanks!
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 4:47 | comment | added | user47696 | If this isn't allowed, why don't the mods auto move it to medicine to help new users? Or even suggest moving it? Negative reinforcement only in the website rules? Way to crush discourse... | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 4:47 | comment | added | user47696 | (mRNA, protein) manufacture is an entire biology discipline relevant for medical and non medical industry. OPs question is a good one - is it easier to manufacture the mRNA than the protein, and is that part of why the vaccine is an mRNA vaccine. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 4:47 | comment | added | user47696 | Bryans comment suggests he doesn't understand that the mRNA vaccine is also bulk manufactured. Bryan also says that the mRNA vaccine results in "very little protein" without citation, v questionable assertion. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 1:15 | comment | added | user47696 | This site should find a way to enable discourse regarding the rapidly growing and extremely relevant field of bioengineering. Currently there is no "home" for it on Stack Exchange. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 20:11 | history | edited | vfclists | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 20:02 | answer | added | user47696 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 19:16 | comment | added | vfclists | @BryanKrause I'm not acquainted with the science here, as you can see that I have only asked one question here previously. The question can be broken into 2 parts. 1. Whether the spike protein can be manufactured independently of the human body, 2. If it can, why the human body is being used to produce it and whether is a cost benefit to it. I assume for the layman there is the implied assumption that the human body is the only place the spike protein can be synthesized, but seeing that is not the first time gene manipulation have been used to create compounds is what prompts the question. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | I don't think you're looking at this the right way and taking far too literally the meaning of "manufacturing" in this sense. You're comparing a vaccine to mass production of bulk materials. The mRNA- or viral-based covid vaccines produce very little protein in comparison. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:31 | comment | added | vfclists | It is about a biological process which in this case uses the human body as the system of manufacturing. Whether a cost benefit is a secondary issue, but it clearly has to be a factor given the huge scale on which it is being applied. Is the scale the only reason why Covid has enabled mRNA vaccines managed to go mainstream or is just fortuitous timing? The scale and the economics matter. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | tyersome | I’m voting to close this question because it is not about a biological mechanism or process. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:08 | history | asked | vfclists | CC BY-SA 4.0 |