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Nobel Prize Winner Drew Weissman Wrote and WARNED about mRNA Safety in 2018

Nobel Prize Winner Drew Weissman Wrote and WARNED about mRNA Safety in 2018

Warnings included hyper-inflammatory responses, autoimmune triggering and thrombosis

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A major hurdle in the development of lab-made mRNA was (still is) mRNA immunogenicity. The body's immune system sees mRNA as a foreign invader and attacks it, triggering a hyper-inflammatory response.

In 2005, Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó and her U.S. colleague Drew Weissman developed nucleoside base modifications, which stop the immune system fr…

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