Moderna, The Leading Coronavirus vaccine developer, uses cells of aborted babies

Settles it for me. I do not support any research that uses cells from aborted murdered children.

I respect you point of view but have a question.

If the original research had been done on cells recovered from a cadaver, and it turned out that the person had been murdered (for reasons totally unrelated to the research), would you refuse a vaccine resulting from that research?

The reason Moderna could get this vaccine ready so quickly is that it is a flexible platform - just insert the MRNA code - and they had already developed a MERS vaccine (another coronavirus).

They can put genetic code for multiple proteins in a dose. They also can design the vaccine to target conserved proteins such as the binding site of necessary enzymes. Targeting multiple proteins and conserved proteins prevents mutations from creating vaccine resistant strains. No one infected cell will have three simultaneous mutations needed. This is why antivirals like the AIDS regimen use a cocktail.

I like that they don’t need to put in adjuvants. I think adjuvants are responsible for the epidemic of wierd autoimmune diseases.

MRNA medicine is a gift from God, the haters have it backwards. In the absence of something like this, in a century we will be back to the pre-antibiotic era.

To be consistent the hater/purists need to also say:

1) IBM made machines that helped the Nazis track and exterminate Jews. Lets not use any computer technology invented by IBM.

2)Von Braun’s team and Hitler’s aircraft factories used slave labor. Lets dont use any aerospace technology developed the Germans.

3) Some policeman have beaten up and killed innocent people, especially Blacks. Therefore dont utilize or respect the police, all police are the enemy.

Upon further study, the patent does not use PCR to make the mRNA, and the term in “in vitro” does not exclude the possibility of using a cell or cell culture, nor does the patent exclude it.

But the broad list of transcriptases, such as phage transcriptase, suggests to me that they are doing the transcription (DNA to mRNA) in a bacterial culture or a reactor, and another article I found about their process also only talked about using chemicals and enzymes. IMO human cell culture is not necessary. And many/most human cell lines are not from abortion.

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