No Nanobots in Vaccines — Just Lipids on the Loose: Commentary on Lee and Broudy (2024), “Real-Time Self-Assembly of Stereomicroscopically Visible Artificial Constructs in Incubated Specimens of mRNA Products Mainly from Pfizer and Moderna: A Comprehensive Longitundinal Study”
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cholesterol, Comirnaty, Moderna, nanorobotics, optical microscopy, Pfizer, self-assembling structures, transfection, BNT162b2 vaccine, nanobots, mod mRNA transfection, cationic amphiphiles, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanoparticles, impurities in vaccinesAbstract
Lee and Broudy (2024) reported conspicuous microscopic objects in mRNA vaccines, which they interpreted as “nano-robots”. This is a misconception, because the wide range of different shapes can be readily explained in terms of self-assembling lipids (including cholesterol), as are used for transfection. Lipid nanostructures and their rearrangements will be discussed.
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