OMG! There’s DNA in vaccines!

Antivaxxers have been banging on about DNA in vaccines. It’s true, but it doesn’t mean what they think. Some are even claiming that the vaccines contain a cancer causing virus called SV40. This isn’t true. In this video, Dr Susan Oliver and the Cindy the dog will go back to the science and examine their claims.

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Links to data:

DNA fragments detected in monovalent and bivalent Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada: Exploratory dose response relationship with serious adverse events.
https://osf.io/mjc97/

Pitfalls of DNA Quantification Using DNA-Binding Fluorescent Dyes and Suggested Solutions
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150528

ThermoFischer notes Qubit dsDNA HS Assay sensitivity and selectivity
https://www.thermofisher.com/au/en/home/industrial/spectroscopy-elemental-isotope-analysis/molecular-spectroscopy/fluorometers/qubit/sample-data.html

Good manufacturing practice – an overview
https://www.tga.gov.au/good-manufacturing-practice-overview

Batch release assessment of COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.tga.gov.au/products/covid-19/covid-19-vaccines/batch-release-assessment-covid-19-vaccines

High spontaneous integration rates of end-modified linear DNAs upon mammalian cell transfection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33862-0

Immune Sensing Mechanisms that Discriminate Self from Altered Self and Foreign Nucleic Acids
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761320302697

SV40 and human cancer: A review of recent data
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.22425

Common promoters for eukaryotes and prokaryotes
https://blog.addgene.org/plasmids-101-the-promoter-region