Read this recently and can't find it again! Done in the style of a scientific report. Made me laugh but also made my hair stand on end. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Thanks to everyone who answered my questions about contemporary genetic engineering! Things certainly have changed. :-)
Before I ask this question, I want to reiterate that I have a degree in genetics (albeit very rusty), and to mention that I am vulnerable to COVID, have had mRNA vaccines several times, and I highly recommend vaccination. (In fact, I just had my COVID and flu jabs. Madness that the US military will now be left vulnerable to flu.)
The question: someone online asked if the mRNA from mRNA vaccines could get into the nucleus and be incorporated into the genome. I poked around, but could only find simple assertions that this was impossible. I'd like to understand why it can't happen, so that next time I'll be able to reassure someone / counter a false claim. Thanks!
When I was wrestling with my degree in genetics in the 90s, we would (for example) slam a gene for antibiotic resistance any old where inside a bacterial plasmid -- using retrotransposons, I think? Surely genetics has moved on from that crude method and the risk of disrupting needed or wanted genes?
I've been playing around with some online resources, trying to match the phrase "ba ma zu na la amu pa go lu ne me a ba du" to Sumerian texts or words, but no luck so far.