CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agoCan harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different, actually harmful viruses?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up131file-text
arrow-up131message-squareCan harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different, actually harmful viruses?CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·19 hours agoSo you want to engineer a living, evolving, highly contagious virus that contains enough of a dangerous virus to train your immune system to be resistant to that dangerous disease? Do you not see how bad an idea that is?
minus-squareCrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 hours agoNo, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·18 hours agoExcept viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.
So you want to engineer a living, evolving, highly contagious virus that contains enough of a dangerous virus to train your immune system to be resistant to that dangerous disease?
Do you not see how bad an idea that is?
No, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
Except viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.