Tuesday, 11 January 2022

The Week In Virology (twiv)

Some boring meanderings (starts with a twenty minute discusssion of local weather) but interesting dissection of scientific papers on covid.

Learned that there's a "mouse strain" (model?) called 129, or rather 129S2

And there's a difference between attenuation and infection? Attenuated vaccines, wikipedia tells me, are the ones that make a virulent agent less harmful while keeping it alive.


"You know what a camel is, right?  A horse designed by a committee."