“I think what we have is a universal vaccine against diverse respiratory threats,” Pulendran said.

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      Intentionally spread a new variant of a virus to create demand for a new vaccine because nobody cares about COVID anymore? I’d believe it.

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        Evolution will happen whether we want it or not and new strains will appear from time to time, just like we’ve seen with every virus ever known.

        But if you still think that’s what happened, we’d love to see your evidence of this new strain being man-made.

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          Exactly. Our immune system is excellent but its immune cell exploration space is on the order of 10^11 potential receptors.

          So since RNA viruses in particular can mutate so rapidly, we just use our brains to reduce that by 10+ orders of magnitude and target the antigens we want directly. The end result is the same, biotech is just smarter.

          “Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” ~biotech

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    Headline “protects against”.

    Lede paragraph: “could one day protect against”.

    Article: “in mice”

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    With three doses, the mice remained protected from SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses for at least three months.

    Big pharma whips out their calculator, their eyes grow larger and larger as they excitedly do the math.

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    the nasal spray vaccine supercharges the lungs’ own immune defenses, keeping them on high alert for months

    I can see this working against bacteria and viruses but how does it block allergens? Isn’t an overly strong immune reaction how they start to begin with?

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    Needles put a lot off people off and it‘s especially confronting to parents with babies and toddlers. Very hopeful.

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    crazy shit man.

    i just heard about a nasal spray technology that was recently developed for a BCI (body computer interface) using conductive nano particles that can pass the blood brain barrier.

    not sure how it works, but just that it apparantly exists.

    like nasal spray neuralink.

    not saying this is related or anything, besides having the same delivery system.

    crazy times we live in.