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@JustinMcClanahan

Hello @searcher1. The study that The Telegraph referenced from the University of Cambridge (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/researchers-redesign-future-mrna-therapeutics-to-prevent-potentially-harmful-immune-responses) states:

"In collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Kent, Oxford and Liverpool, the MRC Toxicology Unit team tested for evidence of the production of ‘off-target’ proteins in people who received the mRNA Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. They found an unintended immune response occurred in one third of the 21 patients in the study who were vaccinated – but with no ill-effects, in keeping with the extensive safety data available on these COVID-19 vaccines.

The team then redesigned mRNA sequences to avoid these ‘off-target’ effects, by correcting the error-prone genetic sequences in the synthetic mRNA. This produced the intended protein. Such design modifications can easily be applied to future mRNA vaccines to produce their desired effects while preventing hazardous and unintended immune responses."

Unfortunately, the data from this study was misconstrued and circulated widely on social media where some publications misrepresented the data.

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Hey Justin,
Seems like you understand this stuff. Can you restate it really simply? Or, maybe, just state the implications, if any, for future vaccines?
Thanks a bunch!
Anne