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new — and the final — semester starts today. i'm excited about it, and i'm adequately terrified of both said semester and college ending, so it seems like a good mix

goodfortuneforever-deactivated2

Ceramics by Johnson Tsang

sadcypher

going on my daily silly little walk for my silly little mental health in between study sessions

wildcat2030

A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world. Human trials have shown the vaccine to be safe and effective, with India already authorizing its use as…

A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world. Human trials have shown the vaccine to be safe and effective, with India already authorizing its use as production ramps up to over 100 million doses per month. The vaccine has been named Corbevax and it is based on a traditional protein-based technology that has been safely used for decades. Like other COVID-19 vaccines, Corbevax focuses on the coronavirus spike protein, but instead of using mRNA to direct our cells to produce those spike proteins internally it delivers lab-grown spike proteins to the body. The researchers took the gene that codes for the spike protein and engineered yeast to produce it. These proteins are collected, purified, and combined with an adjuvant to enhance immune responses. This exact method has been used to produce the hepatitis B vaccine for years. “Protein-based vaccines have been widely used to prevent many other diseases, have proven safety records, and use economies of scale to achieve low-cost scalability across the world,” says Maria Elena Bottazzi, one of the lead researchers on the project.

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It can not be overstates how important it is that this vaccine can be stored in a normal refrigerator and is easy to produce with affordable standard equipment that is already available almost everywhere because low-income countries have been using this same equipment to create hepatitis B vaccines. As a result, production cost will also be low: about $1.5 - $2 per dose.

Other cool things:

They deliberately made the vaccine vegan and halal to make sure more people are willing to take it.

These researchers aren’t just doing this because they’re ‘too late to cash in’. They have a track record of releasing patent-less vaccines and for the last two decades have focused on creating vaccines that are considered ‘not profitable enough’, like vaccines for parasites that primarily occur in low-income regions.

article: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-12/creator-of-patent-free-covid-19-vaccine-multinationals-should-be-more-altruistic-when-calculating-their-profits.html

notebookist

i'm back, and messier better than ever, ft. a giant croissant stuffed with cream and a bunch of old bookshelf finds

thelma-and-louise

why is the riddler so obsessed w question marks hmm? what’s he questioning, his sexuality?

uhhrellys

bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark !!

soracities

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

softspringsolace

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

dionysian-mystery

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

shlrleystudies

2022

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i spent $32 on this fucking bowl at the moma and at first i felt bad buying it bc it was so expensive but ive had a terrible day today and every time i look at my lil bowl im like :o) you know what. i can get through anything with this bowl by my side

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i literally get what marie kondo was talking about now

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bc everyone keeps requesting to see it filled :)

lew-basnight

I don’t know how long I’ve been here. Time seems to pass differently. But the place is cozy and private so I have no complaints. And whenever I’m hungry, I go outside with my bowl and walk down the hill to the shore. Sometimes the lake is made of soup. Sometimes it’s huge pasta noodles the size of barges. Sometimes it’s breakfast cereal. Sometimes it’s dumplings the size of great whales. I dip my little bowl and take a portion and carry it back up to the house.

Today I found a new bowl! In its center is a little hill with a little house. I will carry it down to the shore and fill it up, and whomever lives in that little house can have a tiny portion of my meal. I hope they have a nice bowl to put it in..