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But it doesn't. There's no transcribing going on. mRNA is the *result* of transcribing from DNA. The genes aren't touched.

In normal operation the genes are the master blueprints from which work orders (in the form of mRNA) are generated. The cells use that mRNA to build the requested proteins. The mRNA vaccines are bogus work orders slipped into the production queue and they go nowhere near the DNA.

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I mistyped translation. Been 20 years since biochem.

If you think of the gene in RNA form (transcribed from DNA), it's a gene being translated to aminos. The gene is therapy.

I get gene therapy isn't used that way but I was trying to fairly interpret what people could mean.

I could see how someone could twist that to "gene therapy" but it's certainly not how I learned biology. Genes are the master copy from which working copies are made for production purposes.

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