Truth sandwich on the topic of safety

Fact: The mRNA in vaccines is not incorporated into human DNA.

Myth: “The mRNA in vaccines changes the human genome – our DNA.”

Although mRNA vaccines are relatively new, they are already among the best-studied medications in the world. There is no recognisable risk that the mRNA which is contained in some COVID-19 vaccines is incorporated into the genome (DNA) of body cells or germ line cells.

mRNA vaccines are a relatively new technology and have been administered to many millions of individuals within a short time. A certain scepticism as to the effects this might have is therefore quite understandable. It is also understandable that hearing about possible changes to our genetic make-up initially provokes uncertainty. It requires extensive knowledge of biology and cellular function to recognise which assertions are true and which are not, and to understand how mRNA vaccines work and why they are not “gene therapy”.

What is important to know is that mRNA (messenger RNA) occurs naturally in every cell of the human body – in what is called our cytoplasm. Human DNA, by contrast, is always inside the cell’s nucleus. The mRNA from a vaccine cannot reach there. It transports a part of the blueprint of the SARS-Coronavirus-2 exclusively into the cytoplasm – but it cannot penetrate into the nucleus of the human cell.

In fact: The mRNA in vaccines cannot be incorporated into the genome of our cells.

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