{"id":105642,"date":"2020-04-18T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/experimental-covid-19-vaccine-hacks-your-dna-to-build-immunity"},"modified":"2020-04-18T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T15:24:28","slug":"experimental-covid-19-vaccine-hacks-your-dna-to-build-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/experimental-covid-19-vaccine-hacks-your-dna-to-build-immunity","title":{"rendered":"Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Hacks Your DNA to Build Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-covid-19-vaccine-hacks-your-dna-to-build-immunity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like a virus hijacks your cells and forces them to churn out more copies of the virus, this vaccine is expected to automate the production of those particles, which B-cells and T-cells \u2014 the biological hunter-seekers of the immune system \u2014 can use to ready themselves to fight the real-deal coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference between this sort of DNA-based vaccine and a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/researchers-promising-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate\">traditional one<\/a>, Slavcev told Futurism, is that it relies on the person\u2019s cells to create the mock virus instead of merely exposing them to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/volunteers-start-taking-another-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine\">an inert version<\/a> of the real virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonal genetics only has to do with how the vaccine is presented,\u201d Slavcev told Futurism, regarding the decision to develop a DNA-based vaccine. \u201cThere is some variation between individuals and populations, but in this case the DNA is just to improve immune response and make it mimic a viral infection as closely as possible to stimulate the most effective immune response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like a virus hijacks your cells and forces them to churn out more copies of the virus, this vaccine is expected to automate the production of those particles, which B-cells and T-cells \u2014 the biological hunter-seekers of the immune system \u2014 can use to ready themselves to fight the real-deal coronavirus. The main difference [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}