Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
1 min readJul 28, 2021

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Thank you for your kind comment. About your question, I think this article (link below) has done a good job of calculating it. Based on that article, it seems that there are about 30 mRNA molecules in one LNP, and about 1 trillion LNP in one vaccine dose. But the article goes on to say that:

“ Well, a typical mammalian cell contains 360,000 mRNA molecules. Let’s say getting ~10% of that could probably overwhelm a cell and cause cell death. ~30,000 vaccine mRNAs means 1000 LNPs per cell, which means that 1T LNPs could probably kill 1B cells. Now, before you freak out, know that there are 40T cells in a human body, so 1B is just 0.0025%. Also, many LNPs probably will get intercepted by tissue-resident immune cells before they have a chance to enter muscle cells in your shoulder.”

But please note that I’ve not verified this calculation as that’d take a lot of time, considering that I’m not an expert in math or biochemistry.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/get-vaccinated-it-could-help-you-like-not-die-71ebf63555f4

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Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)

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