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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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Stirring the pot 👻💚💜

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@giftober 2024 | day 11: orange & @thegreatimpersonator editing prompt of the month: autumn ➛ fantastic mr. fox (2009)

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Dragging my bleeding, broken body up to the last computer and hitting post before succumbing to my injuries…

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You couldn't drag this out of me with a tractor and chain, but this sad sack of shit just put it all out there, huh

if the following means something to you you need to log off for shabbat: ben 10 tankie is crashing out over getting blocked by tamamita

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I hope this email finds you dead you stuipd piece of shit

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"Antisemitism isn't systemic" says the guy who buys a home with a covenant or land deed specifying it can't be sold to Jews.

“obviously the way that Jews have privilege over non-Jews in Israel means antisemitism doesn’t exist in other places, like where i live” says american guy who’s cousins are part of a white supremacist group that regularly threaten and harass Jews when they walk to synagogue

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The Godzilla art of Noriyoshi Ohrai

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Qatar is everything conspiracy nutjobs think Israel is.

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I dunno, where was this unity last year? Why didn't Ocasio-Cortez lean on her good friends Toaib and Omar and the rest of the Squad to get behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?

Just like how Mamdani supporting Uncommitted instead of Kamala Harris means nobody has to support him now.

That's ultimately what this is about. Stick your head in the sand and pretend big ol' meanie Hakeem Jeffries started this, but Mamdani showed no loyalty to the Democratic Party during the most important election of our lives, so he's not entitled to any loyalty now. Confront him about his mistake and maybe things can move forward.

You can try and gaslight us all you want, but people aren't going to forget the Uncommitted Movement and how they helped reelect Trump by depressing turnout.

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Gengar

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What's up with that right eye there buddy