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Why is the mRNA not damaged at -70 C temperature Corona vaccine?
Actually they use Sucrose as cryoprotectant.
https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/questions/25289/why-use-sucrose-rather-than-glucose-in-an-injectable-vaccine/25290
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As was observed (by others) under related q's here on material from that site, it seems Pfzier/BioNTech has done a global optimization to increase CG contents in the sequence, generally thought to be beneficial to mRNA expression (in addition to all the other things they've done, like U -> m1Ψ global substitution, specific to mRNA therapeutics).
That (...
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The two stop codons are obviously to prevent read-through of the termination codon. Why this should be necessary is not clear to me, but the following may be relevant:
The synthetic mRNA differs from the natural mRNA in a particular respect that is easier to explain with reference to the transcript map of the virus, below.
The two ORFs 1a and 1b are ...
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Answering my own question after reading the 2018 Nature review article “mRNA vaccines — a new era
in vaccinology”
The resources and motivation engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic are a major factor in the development of the first mRNA vaccines approved by national governments. However, before the COVID-19 pandemic, there were recent advances in mRNA vaccine ...
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