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Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2020-12-26 04:27:52
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Software developer Bert Hubert explores reverse engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate [berthub.eu] being rolled out in what amount to mass scale clinical trials. Pfizer claims to have used mRNA to encode instructions [berthub.eu] for producing the distinctive outer layer of protein coating the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The source code!

Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. The WHO document has this helpful picture:

This is a sort of table of contents. We’ll start with the ‘cap’, actually depicted as a little hat.

Much like you can’t just plonk opcodes in a file on a computer and run it, the biological operating system requires headers, has linkers and things like calling conventions.

He also has a much older blog post on DNA sequencing [blogspot.com].

Previously:
(2020) U.S. Investigating 5 Allergic Reactions to Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine [soylentnews.org]
(2020) States Next Week's Vaccine Allocation Cut, But Millions of Pfizer's Await Delivery Instructions [soylentnews.org]


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