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		mrfusion on March 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] The lipid container is weird to me. Is that all it takes to send instructions inside a cell? Seems like a security hole. Why haven’t viruses evolved to have a lipid container?

inportb on March 30, 2021 | [–]

> Why haven’t viruses evolved to have a lipid container?

They have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_envelope

jforman on March 30, 2021 | [–]

I was going to say you can't get very far without a protein vehicle, but then I remembered that's quite incorrect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon

The injection is important, however, as it gets the genetic material past a whole lot of nucleases that cover your epithelia.

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