'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

• Anne S. UlrichKarlsruhe Institute of Technology

DOI: 

https://doi.org/10.56098/7hsjff81

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

• Anne S. Ulrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  Full Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC) and Institute of Biological Interfaces (IBG2) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 6, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany, Tel +49 721 60843222, email: anne.ulrich@kit.edu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-9483)

https://www.ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/106