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I'll start this on off as this will be more of a story as the years go on. 
grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines
The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines, works by teaching our cells to recognize and protect us against infectious diseases.
The project’s goals, made possible by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are threefold: showing that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, demonstrating the plants can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage.
In Pigs: They say “It's not in your food. It's a vaccine for the animal that, just like any vaccine, protects the animal from disease,” Folta says. I say BULL
Livestock and mRNA Vaccines: What You Need To Know
Current mRNA vaccines being used in swine are injected into the muscle, Folta explains, which causes the development of the immune response protein to then stimulate the body to work against the virus.
The mRNA never leaves the cells from where it was injected. So the meat you eat doesn't have cells then.. hummmm RNA is a very unstable molecule that must be kept cold, buffered and in solvent, to remain viable, Folta explains. Where have we've heard this line before.
grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines
The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines, works by teaching our cells to recognize and protect us against infectious diseases.
The project’s goals, made possible by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are threefold: showing that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, demonstrating the plants can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage.
In Pigs: They say “It's not in your food. It's a vaccine for the animal that, just like any vaccine, protects the animal from disease,” Folta says. I say BULL
Livestock and mRNA Vaccines: What You Need To Know
Current mRNA vaccines being used in swine are injected into the muscle, Folta explains, which causes the development of the immune response protein to then stimulate the body to work against the virus.
The mRNA never leaves the cells from where it was injected. So the meat you eat doesn't have cells then.. hummmm RNA is a very unstable molecule that must be kept cold, buffered and in solvent, to remain viable, Folta explains. Where have we've heard this line before.