MRNA COVID-19 vaccines, such as those created by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, have been found to prompt cells to produce “unintended proteins,” according to a “landmark study” published this week in the peer-reviewed Nature journal.
The study, led by a team of researchers at the Medical Research Council at the University of Cambridge, compared the immune responses of mice after receiving a Pfizer mRNA vaccine and the DNA-based AstraZeneca vaccine.
They found that those injected with Pfizer generated “frameshift-derived proteins,” whereas those who received AstraZeneca did not. “Frameshifting” changes the way the genetic code in the vaccine is interpreted by cells in an unintended way, and puts the process of out of sync. The result was to produce a “nonsensical and harmless protein… which the body attacks and leads to an immune system flare-up.”
The researchers thereafter analyzed the immune responses of 20 people who received AstraZeneca and 21 who received Pfizer. Between 25 and 30 percent of those who received a Pfizer jab had a similar protein response, according to their blood samples. None of those who received AstraZeneca did.
The authors concluded that “[t]hese findings are of particular importance… for designing and optimizing future mRNA-based therapeutics to avoid mistranslation events that may decrease efficacy or increase toxicity.”
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