Saw #Morbius. The “science” and basic stuff about vampire bats made me laugh my ass off. They got 2 things correct about these bats: they are small, and they drink blood.
They don’t rip anything apart and frankly I would die to watch the version of Morbius where Jared Leto and Matt Smith piss themselves while drinking blood like the bats do.
Oh I’m sorry they got one more thing correct. The bats make anticoagulants in their saliva. That we’ve been working on synthesizing for years. The protein is LITERALLY CALLED DRACULIN.
Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9795244/
First sentence in the abstract “Draculin, a glycoprotein isolated from vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) saliva, is a natural anticoagulant which inhibits activated coagulation factors IX (IXa) and X (Xa).”
First sentence in the abstract “Draculin, a glycoprotein isolated from vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) saliva, is a natural anticoagulant which inhibits activated coagulation factors IX (IXa) and X (Xa).”
The fact we ACTUALLY NAMED THIS PROTEIN DRACULIN is infinitely cooler than #Morbius.
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