{"id":168661,"date":"2023-07-30T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-a-bbq-lighter-can-make-dna-vaccines-more-powerful"},"modified":"2023-07-30T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T13:38:12","slug":"how-a-bbq-lighter-can-make-dna-vaccines-more-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-a-bbq-lighter-can-make-dna-vaccines-more-powerful","title":{"rendered":"How a BBQ lighter can make DNA vaccines more powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-bbq-lighter-can-make-dna-vaccines-more-powerful2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Georgia Tech researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/118\/45\/e2110817118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transformed<\/a> a standard BBQ lighter into a delivery system that uses an electric spark to boost DNA vaccines \u2014 and it could help increase global access to a cheap, powerful new vaccine technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>mRNA vs. <\/strong><strong>DNA vaccines<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>DNA vaccines deliver a bit of genetic code that tells cells in the body to make a protein from a specific virus or bacteria. That triggers the immune system to create antibodies against that protein that will protect you if you\u2019re ever infected by that particular pathogen.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/mrna-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mRNA vaccines<\/a> work, too, and just like mRNA vaccines, DNA-based shots are relatively cheap to produce and easy to change to make new vaccines \u2014 but the way mRNA and DNA vaccines get their genetic instructions into cells is different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Tech researchers have transformed a standard BBQ lighter into a delivery system that uses an electric spark to boost DNA vaccines \u2014 and it could help increase global access to a cheap, powerful new vaccine technology. mRNA vs. DNA vaccines: DNA vaccines deliver a bit of genetic code that tells cells in the body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168661","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}