
Please, PLEASE, let this be true!
Apparently there's a new vaccine that could give lifelong protection against the flu virus! The key is to make it out of messenger RNA (mRNA) – the genetic material that controls the production of proteins. Not only may it work for life, and it may be possible to manufacture it quickly enough to stop a pandemic!
Holy shizz!
This is awesome news because every time we become to immune to one of the flu viruses, it continues to evolve, so one year's strain is completely different from the next. Plus, most flu vaccines are grown in chicken eggs or cell culture, a process that takes at least six months — it's not exactly quick.
Then the World Health Organization has to predict which strains are going to be worse ahead of time!
The mRNA vaccine can be mass-produced in a few weeks and can be turned into a freeze-dried powder that does not need refrigeration, unlike most vaccines. Blowing your minds already?
Here's what happens according to the source:
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