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Some think patents stand in way of making more vaccines. They don’t. Skill & money do. Just as most of us couldn’t replicate Mona Lisa (no IP there), few can

Once covid vaccines launch, we might trick ourselves into believing they cause everything from colorectal cancer to diabetes to heart disease & lupus. Well-meaning data miners could do real harm.

Aptly named Sputnik V, Russian “approved” vaccine is like old Soviet rocket tech that only got cosmonauts into orbit but lacked the sophistication to get them to the moon like

Arithmancy wasn’t just a class Hermione took at Hogwarts. It’s real math magic that can trick you into thinking you’re immune to covid, take a covid medicine that doesn’t work,

This is for biotech insiders. What book about biotech, drug discovery, or industry influenced you? If you see one someone else has mentioned, Like it. Otherwise, append your own. Will

I propose “contractual genericization” in my book. http://www.thegreatamericandrugdeal.com Basic idea is that US contracts with one or two US-based suppliers to reliably supply the American public with this & other

Viruses are hoody-wearing hackers, but SARS2 is hardly the cleverest. My votes go to HIV, rabies, and herpes. Here are top 10 virus hacks (each a reason I love virology

3) But damn if some viruses aren’t smarter still. For example, the herpes virus called cytomegalovirus (sounds like a virus from Cybertron) produces a decoy MHC pedestal that cons NK

Even as a virologist, there’s one insidious type of bacteria that weighs on my mind. Borrelia- carried by ticks, causes Lyme disease. Thank you @pfizer for recognizing that we do

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

Misleading Stanford Covid diagnostic study is all over news. Flaws w/ this study (authors acknowledge) could trick you into thinking that getting shot in the head has a low chance

As a a virologist, I’m reassured by data out of China showing that a fairly basic vaccine protected monkeys from SARS2 #COVID19-like disease. While this was likely result, details are