COVID-19: AstraZeneca & ChAdOx1-S

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChAdOx1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC-5
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-94837/v1

MRC-5 (Medical Research Council cell strain 5) is a diploid cell culture line composed of fibroblasts, originally developed from the lung tissue of a 14-week-old aborted Caucasian male fetus.

Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.