{"id":122316,"date":"2021-05-06T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/do-mrna-vaccines-affect-my-dna"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:22:22","slug":"do-mrna-vaccines-affect-my-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/do-mrna-vaccines-affect-my-dna","title":{"rendered":"Do mRNA vaccines affect my DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-mrna-vaccines-affect-my-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, DNA is the \u201cinstructions\u201d via which our genes are transferred between us and our offspring. And RNA is in charge of regulating the production of proteins in a body, and its so-called \u201cinstructions\u201d that it gives are for cellular structure.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: RNA and DNA serve different functions, and, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, mRNA vaccines don\u2019t affect or even interact with our DNA at all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In this week\u2019s Pandemic Problems column, a reader asks how to explain mRNA vaccines to a worried family member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, DNA is the \u201cinstructions\u201d via which our genes are transferred between us and our offspring. And RNA is in charge of regulating the production of proteins in a body, and its so-called \u201cinstructions\u201d that it gives are for cellular structure. To be clear: RNA and DNA serve different functions, and, as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122316","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}