Daniel Binzel quoted in "Opinion essay: mRNA vaccines are an essential technology"
As Binzel explained, “It’s an overall astonishing fact that [around] 90 percent of our DNA actually has viral origins. Over time and through evolution, we’ve been infected with viruses, and they incorporate into our genome, and it’s who we are now. But the mRNA itself is completely incapable of changing your DNA. It’d be like trying to throw a rock up over Hoover Dam and changing the dam reservoir makeup itself.”