Message RNA, mRNA, is really just one of three steps in creating a vaccine.
The other two steps are tRNA - transfer RNA,
And rRNA - ribosomal RNA.
mRNA reads somehow what is needed from a virus, to create molecular antibodies against it.
tRNA transfers necessary amino acid molecules for the vaccine, to an accepting ribosome.
rRNA accepts amino acid molecules into one side of a ribosome, and spits out vaccine molecules from another side.
A ribosome is often represented as a snail like image, where the bottom accepts and the top exudes.
Similar to baking a cake. The cookbook is mRNA, read for instruction 'messages' how to bake a cake.
A kitchen table is tRNA, where 'messages' set forth in the cookbook are transferred and mixed - sugar salt flour eggs water mixing spoon pan.
The 'ribosome' oven is rRNA where the filled cake pan is put in the ribosome oven where it comes out a baked cake.
Transcript RNA is also called message RNA, and translation RNA is also know as tRNA.
Since the ribosome actually creates the antibodies, seems to me the vaccine would be better named ribosomal RNA rather than message RNA. You cannot make a cake just by reading about it.
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