• Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    This is great + well-deserved, plus it has the side benefit of making some of the world’s worst people really, really mad.

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    Glad to see Katalin Kariko won. A lot of people told her she couldn’t do her experiments and she just kept at it. Ten years ago she was kicked out, fired for keeping at it

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    This is very well-earned. mRNA vaccines are a huge medical breakthrough that we’re just scratching the surface of. Personalized mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer have already started human trials that have put cancer into complete remission in most patients. I’m excited to see where this technology goes. Imagine cancer becoming something easily treatable with a simple course of vaccines.

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      He was right about that—and more—treating COVID symptoms.

      I’ve got a Philips 85W up my ass right now, and I don’t dare cough.

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          Studies show that 100% of people who injected high doses of bleach didn’t die of COVID. Checkmate, jabbers.

          /s

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.

    The Nobel Prize committee said: “The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.”

    Traditional vaccine technology has been based on dead or weakened versions of the original virus or bacterium - or by using fragments of the infectious agent.

    The immune system recognises these as foreign so it attacks and has learned how to fight the virus, and therefore has a head start when future infections occur.

    The big idea behind the technology is that you can rapidly develop a vaccine against almost anything - as long as you know the right genetic instructions to use.

    But by refining the technology, the researchers were able to produce large amounts of the intended protein without causing dangerous levels of inflammation that had been seen in animal experiments.


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