• peoplebeproblems
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    24 hours ago

    Wait you can do crazy shit like that with mRNA vaccines?

    Does that mean potentially preventing even prion disease is possible?

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      23 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotherapy?wprov=sfla1

      Immunotherapy is crazy.

      Prion diseases would be harder because things circulating in your blood don’t always enter your brain (thanks to your astrocytes, which help protect your neurons). But if you can get the right cells to produce the right protein, you can do a lot of amazing things.