#Spike

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

How is the #Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine developed?#SARSCoV2 is covered w/Spike proteins that it uses to grab human cells. The vaccine consists of a small genetic material "messenger RNA" that

MilesRS

MilesRS677

I finished a long awaited rewatch of Cowboy Bebop and..wow. I've always appreciated this series from a technical standpoint, but it feels good to finally get it. Everyone in this

Emily Nussbaum

emilynussbaum

My only contribution to the rising Buffy-verse talk is that Buffy & Spike were *mutually* abusive to one another—at one point, she beat the crap out of him! Her whole

Bunsen and Beaker

bunsenbernerbmd

As the vaccines for #COVID19 roll out here is a reminder about them using dogs!Some are #mRNA , a new but not unknown vaccine technology. mRNA is a messaging system

PRFanfics

FanficsPr

So far I'm enjoying much of this fic (Cast Me Not Away, Buffyverse - http://archiveofourown.org/works/74520 ) bc the Dawn char is good, Nika is ok for an OC, Wes is...less self

belfryhockey

belfryhockey

Another good one that I have done 100’s of times since.“Today we are going to pick that kid (one with the least confidence in his ability) and you are going

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the new strain of SARS2 in the UK.It's more than just a single mutation: 14 non-synonymous changes and several deletions.https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisation-of-an-emergent-sars-cov-2-lineage-in-the-u

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Live view of me watching tv specials about the vaccine, and thinking it’s great there are infographics, but then seeing that the mRNA-expressed spike proteins aren’t transmembrane-anchored. Ok, my lay

Stephanie E Suarez

geologiststephy

The way our governments prolonged the effects of this virus is threatening the safety and integrity of our city. The cases of murder, burglary and domestic violence are through the

Maxx Chatsko

7MaxxChatsko

Will we need to make new coronavirus vaccines each year? Will it change "just like the flu"? Probably not. Coronaviruses and influenzas are very different in how they infect human

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Suppose that, miraculously, 99% of americans do not do thanksgiving. They stay home, do not expose loved ones, etcThat remaining 1% would be 3,280,000 million people.In a country where 1

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Lots of new variant news - yes, they are more infectious likely due to higher viral loads in nose/mouth but not more "virulent" (not likely to make people more sick)

Anderson Brito

AndersonBrito_

The amino acid deletion ∆69/70 has been used as a proxy for detecting viruses from B.1.1.7 ('UK variant'). The same marker has been used in the US, but we caution

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

This is a good high level discussion on variants and immune responses & importantly also faces head on the possibility that some people are injured or even killed by vaccines

Dr. Arinjay Banerjee

sci_questions

The mutation in the spike protein of circulating #SARSCoV2 has been the focus of many stories over the last couple of days. We and others have shown that coronaviruses exist

DNA&RNA Universe💎

DNA_RNA_Uni

Cool by MaxPlanckSociety Electron micrographs of the spike protein of Sars-CoV-2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MtEv-2yl1w#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #research #coronavirus #Spike #protein @_atanas_ @grawoig @emulenews ***check also

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