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From Chips to DNA change! The most prevalent theory on the net after the release of the anti-Covid vaccine and why it may not be true

From Chips to DNA change! The most prevalent theory on the net after the release

While millions of people around the world are getting the coronavirus vaccine, some others are still reluctant to do so. There are several common reasons for this ranging from perhaps the most reasonable claims to absurdities, such as the 5G network theory and microchips within the vaccine.

But currently according to Forbes, the most popular theory of the moment is that RNA vaccines like those of the coronavirus will alter DNA in humans. People or groups with nicknames like scientists or experts spread such messages on social networks, from Facebook to Twitter and YouTube.

The good news in this story is that just the Covid vaccine can not do that, and for this fact conspiracy theorists may be disappointed.

But where did this belief come from that vaccines change DNA?

"I think people are concerned because this is genetic material injected into the body, and they think it might somehow mix with the genetic material and change it," says Sara Riordan, President of the National Association of Genetic Advisers.

But she points out that there are fundamental differences between the DNA that carries all the information we inherited from our parents and the mRNA from which the Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines are made.

DNA is double-stranded, very long, and tightly fused inside a part of the cell called the nucleus. mRNA is a copy of a small piece of DNA, which is created in the nucleus, but then released into the main part of the cell so that the instructions it carries can be "read" and turned into a variety of proteins needed by the cell.

"RNA is made naturally by the body, it encodes instructions for your body cells to produce proteins. "Every mRNA vaccine has the same purpose, to teach and train your body for an immune response to a particular pathogen, so if the pathogen enters your body, your immune system can attack it," says Riordan.

In the case of Rov vaccines against Covid-19, these are not made in the nucleus, but instead injected into the arm to teach muscle cells how to become part of the "Spike" or "S" viral protein smallpox of SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, which by itself has none of the negative effects of the virus itself.

"What's really soothing about these vaccines is that, mRNA never goes to the nucleus, the part of the cell is what contains all of your DNA and instructions."

Scientists say it is important to say first of all that DNA-altering viruses do not include coronaviruses, but include viruses like HIV and HPV.

The way these viruses work is through randomly attaching to the DNA of a cell, replicating with multiple copies and turning the cells into carcinogens.

* Forbes / Tiranapost.al.