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    Not all of them, but the most successful from Biontech/Pfizer and moderna are both mRNA based. However there were also others based on protein subunits or viral vectors for example.

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        If your question is whether crispr gene editing was used by any of the vaccines, then no none of them used it as a direct mechanism.

        However it might have been used somewhere along the line in their creation, e.g. to knock out a gene in the viral vectors. But i couldn’t tell you that with certainty.

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            Yeah, the possibilities are definitely exciting. But i guess as far as Covid19 vaccines are concerned it was probably a good thing that none required their direct use. As is we already had a ton of missinformation and fearmongering, i don’t even want to imagine how bad it would have been, if gene editing was involved in any direct sense.