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Physical & Life Sciences
Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains
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<blockquote data-quote="sfs" data-source="post: 77649715" data-attributes="member: 8727"><p>Intriguing idea, but lots of questions remain. How many pathogenic viruses have this particular mechanism for suppressing the RNA-based antiviral defenses? How many have multiple such mechanisms, and will it be possible to disable them all? A key question is how long the protection lasts. Unless there's some mechanism for cells to continue to produce the small targeting RNAs after the virus is gone (which I haven't heard about), the RNAs will degrade in time and all protection will be lost. But on what timescale?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sfs, post: 77649715, member: 8727"] Intriguing idea, but lots of questions remain. How many pathogenic viruses have this particular mechanism for suppressing the RNA-based antiviral defenses? How many have multiple such mechanisms, and will it be possible to disable them all? A key question is how long the protection lasts. Unless there's some mechanism for cells to continue to produce the small targeting RNAs after the virus is gone (which I haven't heard about), the RNAs will degrade in time and all protection will be lost. But on what timescale? [/QUOTE]
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