Which vaccine would you get if your power was being turned off?

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[–]Wrangel 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Imagine thinking mRNA alters DNA.

[–]Nombre27 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus

A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts a copy of its RNA genome[a] into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell.

[–]Wrangel 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

These viruses contain more then rna

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That doesn't change the validity of what I said. RNA can in fact alter DNA, and there are multiple mechanisms that achieve this.

As far as the damage viruses are capable of doing, it's their genome that enables all of it, so it is a big contributory factor. Without it they likely wouldn't be able to multiply and continue infecting more cells, amongst the other things that their genome and proteins may do.