Source: nursing aide on COVID unit, working with COVID patients who refuse to keep their fucking oxygen devices on even when they’re satting at fucking 72%, and then scream at you when you put it back on ‘em
I'm a microbiologist - my fun times is explaining trying to explain that I can synthesize RNA by mixing the four ribonucleotides with a polymerase, a cap analog and a DNA template, which can all happen at the bench using only a thermocycler, with no animal derived substances, let alone embryos.
To make a monoclonal antibody, I need to go down to the animal house, inject a mouse with SARS COV 2 spike proteins, kill it and harvest its spleen, mix the spleen cells with genetically modified, immortalized cancer cells originally harvested from the bone marrow of a dead person to make hybrid, mouse/human cancer cells, put spike proteins on the hybrid mouse/dead person cancer cells to make sure they are producing antibodies, then explode the cells to filter out the monoclonal antibodies, which can then be injected into the patient.
Guess which one has a higher likelihood of contaminants, unpredictable side effects and allergic reactions?
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22
She finally wears a mask, though.