Jakarta, Aug. 12 -- Claims that messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccines cause cancer have no scientific basis, according to a researcher at Indonesia's Biomedical Research Center.

"If we were to respond to claims that mRNA vaccines cause cancer or act as tumor-suppressing antiproteins, we can say the information is baseless and not supported by scientific evidence," said Khariri, the researcher, in Jakarta on Tuesday.

He explained that mRNA simply carries instructions to produce temporary proteins - such as the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 - and that this process occurs in the cell's cytoplasm.

"These instructions do not enter the cell nucleus where the DNA is located, and this process does not alter the DNA," he said.

Khariri...