You don't need to worry about COVID vaccines being 'unnatural' or 'synthetic'

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September You do not need to worry about COVID vaccines being unnatural or synthetic You don't need to worry about COVID vaccines being 'unnatural' or 'synthetic' 02/09/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Associate Professor Archa Fox and Professor Charles Bond, from LIT's School of Molecular Sciences, was originally published in The Conversation. The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are some of our best weapons in the fight against COVID-19. TheyΓÇÖre highly effective and many millions of people around the world have received their doses. These vaccines are the first to be made synthetically, that is, they are made outside of a living cell. Some posts on social media grasp onto the fact they are not ΓÇ£naturalΓÇ¥ and have created anxiety in vaccine-hesitant people by playing on this point. So what does it mean for the mRNA vaccines to be synthetic, and why is that OK? How did we develop our first synthetic vaccines? Humans have been inoculating with germs to train our bodies to fight infectious diseases for a long time. Even before the famous ex

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September You do not need to worry about COVID vaccines being unnatural or synthetic You don't need to worry about COVID vaccines being 'unnatural' or 'synthetic' 02/09/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Associate Professor Archa Fox and Professor Charles Bond, from LIT's School of Molecular Sciences, was originally published in The Conversation.

The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are some of our best weapons in the fight against COVID-19.

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