The sauce in the @pfizer vaccine: mRNA and how it works inside the cell
How the mRNA vaccines fights the dreaded coronavirus
“How mRNA works: Let’s say you have a book representing the genetic code (the official manual of our individual person). You then scan that book in a copy machine, now you have papers that are an image of the original book. The copy doesn’t change the original book. It can’t.”
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RIP: The man who bent light! Narinder Singh Kapany, inventor of fiber optics. Without it, the Internet and modern telecommunications would not be possible, nor the most advanced biomedical instrumentation, nor the efficient use of solar energy. bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/phy…
Dr Kapany’s research on fibre optic communications, lasers, bio-medical instrumentation, solar energy and pollution monitoring led him to gather more than 100 patents. In 1960, he founded Optics Technology Incorporation & again in1973, he founded Kaptron Inc.
Les Mées solar farm, in the rolling hills of La Colle des Mées plateau, in southern France. Covering an area of 200 ha with 112,000 solar modules. Operated by Siemens Energy, generates 100MW, enough to power 12,000 typical French households.
Heartburn drug Pepcid in clinical trial against #COVID19. A 44-year-old woman had tested positive for COVID-19, developed fever, lips became dark blue. One day after her first megadose the her fever broke, her oxygen saturation returned to a normal range
“Five sick co-workers, including three with confirmed COVID-19, also showed dramatic improvements after taking over-the-counter versions of the drug”
Doctors got curious as why many of the survivors tended to be poor? In reviewing 6212 COVID-19 patient records, many survivors had been suffering from chronic heartburn were on famotidine rather than more-expensive omeprazole (Prilosec), the medicine of choice both in US & China