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gallusrostromegalus · 4 months
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AEIWAM: Why DOES the God Machine decay, anyways? It's operating outside of time and space. For that matter, I have Other questions about it. Why does it generate existence in the first place? Does it change its composition over time? Does it communicate with others like it? Did someone make it?
Strictly speaking, there is no reason for life to exist, here or in the fic. This is all just a very fun accident. Life exists in the 4 dimensions we're familiar with not because there is a reason FOR life to exist, but because there is no particular reason for life to NOT exist. I think it's the same in twelve or two hundred forty-seven dimensions. There's no reason for life to NOT exist outside of our understanding of time and space, so there's not particular reason to think it does not exist.
So the life machine exists, not because it was made, but because there is no reason it should not exist.
One thing that does seem to be true across different dimensions (and by "dimensions" I mean "measurable spectrums in which reality can exist", not "Alternate universes") is that death, or at least, entropy *does* exist. The universe we live in will eventually experience heat death. Time unravels under specific conditions and indications are that those conditions will eventually become dominant. All things, even the laws of physics, eventually die.
So the Life Machine dies, because for some reason, all things do.
...But also Things are born for no particular reason.
The big bang happened for no particular reason other than nothing was stopping it (kind of literally). Some people think that the universe will not experience heat death at all, but a dimensional collapse that crushes it all back together, before it explodes again, like a cosmic inhale and exhale.
Perhaps the Life Machine is not dying at all, so much as this version of it is reaching the next phase of it's life cycle, and it departs it's mortal coil not for oblivion but it turns to goop to reform into a body measured in entirely different dimensions.
Which is a bit of an upheaval for its microflora.
The Life Machine generates life in the same way you and I 'generate' the conditions of our intestines that support bacteria. If you ask most people, they do not think their primary purpose in life is to play host to billions of microorganisms, but that is very much something we do, and depend on.
Likewise, the Life Machine is misnamed, because it's got purpose beyond human understanding, like how humans have purpose beyond the understanding of eyelash mites. It's doing it's own thing, we just live here. but if all our microflora and fauna were to leave, it'd be a major problem for us, and if all life were to stop, it'd be a problem for the Life Machine.
In the Tarot, "Death" symbolizes change, and the Life Machine is Dying in the sense that it's definitely changing. Whether that change is the change from caterpillar to butterfly or from whale to whalefall is beyond the comprehension of Mortals, or even things like The Soul King.
Soul King's job is to keep the souls alive through this, and they achieve this by exploiting the fact that this change is also when the Life Machine reproduces. Regardless if the current Life Machine becomes a butterfly or a corpse, it's offspring will have suitable conditions for life to continue. Maybe this is a gift form parent to child- the life machine passes her internal flora to her offspring like a mother transfers her own colonies and antibodies to her child via colostrum. Maybe the Life Machine isn't thinking of it's offspring at all and this is all just the machinations of the parasites to propagate themselves into a new host for the sake of future generations.
Either way, neither action is planned or designed, but are still acts of love from a parent to child. Woman and Nematode alike loves her daughter.
TL;DR: As Above, So below, in the gooeiest and most incomprehensible but deeply loving way possible.
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highball66 · 3 months
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What happened to Sherry after she was kidnapped and separated from Leon?
So post-RE2, Claire left to go find Chris and Leon stayed with Sherry. Eventually, they were both kidnapped, and while they were interrogating Leon, they found out Sherry had been infected with the G-virus but was cured, so she had the G-antibody. They used this as leverage against Leon and threatened to kill him and Sherry if he didn't comply. Leon accepted the "offer" on the condition of Sherry's safety, so rather than her being killed, she was transferred to the "protective" custody of Derek Simmons (from RE6) and thus separated from Leon.
Since Wesker was still out there, Sherry was pretty much on house arrest, which gave Simmons the perfect opportunity to run his own experiments on her. With daily blood draws and other experiments, Simmons managed to develop the C-virus from her blood samples. Although she would've turned 18 in 2004, when RE4 is set, she was still in "protective" custody and under Simmons' thumb. It wasn't until 2009 when Wesker died that she was "allowed" to have more freedom, although her "freedom" came with the agreement for her to become an agent under Simmons' advisement. In a letter to Sherry, Claire advised her not to take the offer, but the government withheld the letter, so Sherry had ended up accepting it. Then her RE6 campaign happens, and we don't really know what happened to her after that since both Simmons and Wesker were now dead and Leon had contact with her again.
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reality-detective · 10 months
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The Vitamin K shot is a vaccine and not a vitamin. It contains aluminum, Benzyl Alcohol and polysorbate-80 (polyoxyethylated/Polyoxyethylene). It is one of the most dangerous vaccines available and only a few that comes with a Black Box Warning, meaning that it can cause death. Also, babies are deficient in vitamin K for a reason. When a baby is born, its blood is thin to facilitate the transfer of nutrients and stem cells from the umbilical cord (connected to the mother's placenta).
The baby starts producing its own vitamin K in the 7-8th day. It's one reason to avoid the vitamin K vaccine. It's also a reason for delayed cord clamping.
"At the moment a baby's born, 1/3 of their blood is still outside their body. If you delay cord clamping 90 seconds, they get 60% more blood cells. They get enough iron to last them through their first year. They get white blood cells to fight infection. They get antibodies. They get stem cells to help repair their body."
— Dr. Alan Greene, MD
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For over two years, concerned citizens around the world have been voicing their concerns about the safety of the novel Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Yet, time and time again, they have been dismissed and labelled as conspiracy theorists by the mainstream media and medical establishment.
However, recent developments have proven that these so-called conspiracy theories were, in fact, true all along.
Because confidential Pfizer documents, that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attempted to delay the release of for 75 years, but were subsequently forced to publish by order of the US Federal Court; and various scientific studies have confirmed that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine does in fact contain a highly toxic substance known as Graphene Oxide.
A substance that is so toxic that it has and still is destroying red blood cells and forming strange blood clots.
Unfortunately, the same confidential Pfizer documents and various scientific studies also confirm that ‘vaccine shedding’ has been occurring. A process in which individuals who received the Covid-19 vaccine unintentionally shed the contents of it to others.
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One of the studies confirming the vast majority of humanity has had absolutely no choice in the matter of whether they wish to get the Covid-19 injection or not because the vaccinated have been transmitting antibodies generated by the injections through aerosol was by conducted by scientists at the University of Colorado
The findings came as no surprise however, because a confidential Pfizer document given to the FDA had already confirmed shedding and exposure to the Covid-19 mRNA injections was perfectly possible by skin-to-skin contact and breathing the same air as someone who had been injected with the Covid-19 “vaccine”.
The study, titled ‘Evidence for Aerosol Transfer of SARS-CoV2-specific Humoral Immunity’, and published on 1st May 2022, was conducted by the following scientists for the University of Colorado –
Ross M. Kedl, Elena Hsieh,
Thomas E. Morrison,
Gabriela Samayoa-Reyes,
Siobhan Flaherty,
Conner L. Jackson,
Rosemary Rochford.
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The abstract of the study reads as follows –
And here are the study authors’ main findings –
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This proves Covid-19 vaccine shedding is perfectly possible when we take into account a study performed on behalf of Pfizer in Japan.
The study observed the distribution of the Covid-19 injection in the bodies of Wister Rats over a period of 48 hours. One of the most concerning findings from the study is the fact that the Pfizer injection accumulates in the ovaries over time.
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It is not known if the injection continues to accumulate after 48 hours due to observations being curiously halted after this amount of time in the study.
But these results, coupled with the first study above, tell us that for a minimum of 48 hours, an unvaccinated person is at risk of being exposed to the Covid-19 injection if they breathe the same air as or touch the skin of a person who has been vaccinated.
This should however come as no surprise because Pfizer admitted as much in their ‘A PHASE 1/2/3, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, RANDOMIZED, OBSERVER-BLIND, DOSE-FINDING STUDY TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY, TOLERABILITY, IMMUNOGENICITY, AND EFFICACY OF SARS-COV-2 RNA VACCINE CANDIDATES AGAINST COVID-19 IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS’ document.
The document contains a whole section covering the possibility of ‘mRNA vaccine shedding’ in which it is possible for those who have been in close proximity to someone who has had the Pfizer mRNA jab to suffer an adverse reaction.
Section 8.3.5 of the document, describes how exposure during pregnancy or breastfeeding to the Pfizer mRNA jab during the trials should be reported to Pfizer Safety within 24 hours of investigator awareness.
This is strange because pregnant women / new mothers were and are not part of the safety trials.
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Well, Pfizer confirms that exposure during pregnancy can occur if a female is found to be pregnant and is environmentally exposed to the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine.
The document states that environmental exposure during pregnancy can occur if a female family member or healthcare provider reports that she is pregnant after having been exposed to the study intervention by inhalation or skin contact.
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In layman’s terms, Pfizer is admitting in this document that it is possible to expose another human to the mRNA Covid vaccine just by breathing the same air or touching the skin of the person who has been vaccinated.
All of this makes the findings in a study conducted by Dr Philippe van Welbergen all the more concerning.
Findings that are now supported as fact by the publication of a confidential Pfizer Document in February 2023.
A document that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been forced to publish by order of the Federal Court in the USA. after arguing they wanted to delay the release of the documents for 75 years.
Dr Philippe van Welbergen (“Dr Philippe”), Medical Director of Biomedical Clinics, was one of the first to warn the public of the damage being caused to people’s blood by Covid injections by releasing images last year of blood samples under the microscope.
At the beginning of July 2021, Dr Philippe was interviewed and explained that when his patients started complaining about chronic fatigue, dizziness, memory issues, even sometimes paralysis and late onset of heavy menstruation (women in their 60s upwards), he took blood samples.
Their blood had unusual tube-like structures, some particles which lit up and many damaged cells. Few healthy cells were visible. Until three months earlier, he had never seen these formations in blood. 
Then in February 2022, Dr Philippe presented images of his latest blood slides and explained what the images show. His slides showed that vaccine-free patients have been “infected” with vaccine toxins through shedding, including what was claimed to be at the time, but is now known to definitely be graphene thanks to the US Federal Court.
A full review of his slides can be viewed here. But here’s a short clip of his presentation –
What Dr Philippe van Welbergen demonstrated is that the graphene being injected into people is organising and growing into larger fibres and structures, gaining magnetic properties or an electrical charge.
And the fibres are showing indications of more complex structures with striations.
He also demonstrated that “shards” of graphene are being transmitted from “vaccinated” to vaccine-free or unvaccinated people, sadly destroying their red blood cells and causing strange blood clots.
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The next image is of a person who has been injected with the experimental Covid drug. The blood is coagulated, and the misshapen red blood cells are clumped together. 
The cell encircled in the image is a healthy red blood cell, one of the few in the image, sitting alongside the graphene fibres.
You can see the size of the graphene fibres in relation to the size of a red blood cell. Fibres of this size will block capillaries.
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Below is the image of a blood sample from an eight-year-old unvaccinated child whose blood has been contaminated and destroyed by the transmission of graphene from those around him/her who had been given a Covid injection.
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Dr Philippe’s presentation is truly eye-opening and horrifying – a must-watch, especially for those who proclaim Covid injections are “safe” and are insisting people be injected. And the findings of Dr Phillippe’s study have now been proven as fact by the FDA being forced to publish confidential Pfizer documents.
The FDA had initially attempted to delay the release of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine safety data for 75 years, despite approving the injection after only 108 days of a safety review on December 11th, 2020.
However, a group of scientists and medical researchers sued the FDA under FOIA to force the release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to the licensing of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
In early January 2022, Federal Judge Mark Pittman ordered the FDA to release 55,000 pages per month, and since then, PHMPT has posted all of the documents on its website as they have been published.
One of the most recent documents published by the FDA saved as 125742_S1_M4_4.2.1 vr vtr 10741.pdf, confirms the use of Graphene Oxide in the manufacturing process of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
The document is a description of a study carried out by Pfizer between April 7th 2020 and 19th August 2020, with the objective being “to express and characterize the vaccine antigen encoded by BNT162b2.”
What is most interesting about the study is that it confirms on page 7 that reduced Graphene Oxide is required to manufacture the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine because it is needed as a base for the lipid nanoparticles.
Pfizer states on page 7 of the study in section 3.4 the following –Source – Page 7
A full investigation of the document can be read here. But this document proves that Graphene Oxide is indeed used in the manufacturing process of the Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 vaccine because it is vital in helping to make the vaccine’s lipid nanoparticles stable.
Therefore, trace amounts or large amounts, depending on the batch of vaccine manufactured, of reduced Graphene Oxide inevitably make their way into the Pfizer Covid-19 injections.
The use of Graphene Oxide in the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has been a source of controversy and concern from the outset, with many individuals claiming that regulators and media outlets were deliberately misleading the public about its inclusion.
Despite initial denials, the documents released by the FDA, which they were forced to publish by order of the Federal Court in the USA. have confirmed the use of Graphene Oxide in the manufacturing process of the Pfizer vaccine, raising questions about who we can trust.
But the Pfizer documents and studies also confirm Covid-19 vaccine shedding has been and still is occurring, destroying red blood cells and forming strange blood clots.
Therefore, it would appear there was never any need to waste an extortionate amount of taxpayers’ money on propaganda to coerce the public into getting the Covid-19 injections.
Because the taxpayer never had a choice in the matter.
All they had to do was breathe.
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preg-lix · 1 month
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I know we're all here for fantasy fun for the most part, but this is my regular interruption to remind yall to get your proper vaccines when you're pregnant or going to be around any infant. The covid and flu vaccines are updating yearly at this point and are always important, but in particular, make sure you have a whooping cough vaccine if you're going to be anywhere near an infant.
Babies get their Tdap shot at around 2 months old, but their final shots aren't until later so they're still a little vulnerable. The number of antibodies transfered in pregnancy fades over time, so pregnant people are recommended to get vaccinated every single pregnancy during the 3rd trimester to provide the most protection possible, and i cannot emphasize enough that anyone who is going to spend a single hour around an infant should have one first. Whooping cough can seem like a cold to you, and end up killing a baby.
Take your vaccinations seriously yall ❤️
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Do you feed your cat a food that helps with human allergies? Did you know you have chickens to thank?
While i was on facebook today I came across some studies posted by The Association of Avain Veterinarians (AAV) about how exposing chickens to Fel d1, which is one of the most common causes of cat related allergies in humans, has them produce eggs that carried antibodies of that allergen in their yolks. When those yolks were then fed back to the cats the cats experienced a reduction in that allergen. This is lovely news for cat lovers with cat related allergies. I posted one of the studies below as its pretty interesting. Also shout out to the cat who was removed from the study for being fractious lol
Also specifically we have lab strain Leghorn chickens to thank as it seems like its usually leghorns who are used for these things, which makes sense since they are very productive layers and very genetically similar. Blue and Greenie distant relatives lol (Blue bird below for people who dont know what a leghorn is)
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/iid3.244
Reduction of active Fel d1 from cats using an antiFel d1 egg IgY antibody
Background
Fel d1 is the most important allergen from cats. Fel d1 is produced primarily in saliva and spread to the haircoat during grooming and then transferred to the environment via hair and dander.
Objectives
A novel approach to reducing allergenic Fel d1 exposure was evaluated, involving binding the Fel d1 with an anti-Fel d1 polyclonal egg IgY antibody. The hypothesis was that hair from cats who had been fed foods containing anti-Fel d1 IgY would show a significant reduction in active Fel d1 (aFel d1).
Methods
Hair collected from 105 cats completing a 12-week study was evaluated for aFel d1 via ELISA. Hair was collected four times over a 2-week baseline period, then weekly during the 10 week treatment period during which cats consumed a food containing the anti-Fel d1 IgY.
Results
Baseline aFel d1 (μg/g hair) varied greatly among the cats in this study. From week 3, there was a significant reduction in mean aFel d1 with an overall average decrease of 47% by week 10, ranging from a 33–71% decrease vs baseline. Cats with the highest baseline aFel d1 showed the greatest decrease in aFel d1.
Conclusions & Clinical Implications
Feeding anti-Fel d1 IgY to cats successfully reduced Fel d1 on their haircoat with the greatest decreases observed in cats with initially high levels. Feeding a diet with anti Fel d1 IgY significantly reduced the active Fel d1 on the hair of cats.
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afeelgoodblog · 2 years
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The Best News of Last Week — September 19, 2022
🎮 — Young people passion for eSports and the environment raised plenty of money for charity
1. Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company — Profits will now go towards climate action
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Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.
“Instead of ‘going public,’ you could say we’re ‘going purpose.’ Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.”
2. World’s Largest Container Line Reroutes Around Endangered Blue Whales
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The largest container line in the world has rerouted its ships passing near the coast of Sri Lanka in order to avoid potential collisions with endangered blue whales.
“MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has taken a major step to help protect blue whales and other cetaceans living and feeding in the waters off the coast of Sri Lanka by modifying navigation guidance in line with the advice of scientists and other key actors in the maritime sector,” MSC said in a statement provided to Insider.
3. Two antibodies identified can fight all known COVID strains, study finds
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Israeli scientists say they have identified antibodies that are so powerful in neutralizing the coronavirus that they could eliminate the need for more vaccine boosters.
A research team at Tel Aviv University experimented with numerous antibodies and found that two in particular neutralize all known strains of the coronavirus, including Delta and Omicron, in a lab setting. Based on their performance in lab conditions, the antibodies could provide the extra protection that today comes from booster shots, adding that this could potentially make extra shots unnecessary among vaccinated people.
4. French charity stream Z Event raises record-breaking $10.3 million for environmental organizations
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Z Event, the biggest charity stream event in Europe, broke a record last night. In fewer than three days, it raised over €10.1 million ($10.3 million) for five environmental nonprofit associations: WWF France, Sea Shepherd France, The SeaCleaners, Time for the planet, and biodiversity association LPO.
Since its creation, the event has been breaking records at every event. Last year, it raised a little less than 2022’s total (corresponding to $11.5M at the time).
5. Palestinian farmer discovers rare ancient treasure in Gaza
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The mosaic was uncovered just a kilometer (half mile) from the Israeli border. The floor, boasting 17 iconographies of beasts and birds, is well-preserved and its colors are bright.
“These are the most beautiful mosaic floors discovered in Gaza, both in terms of the quality of the graphic representation and the complexity of the geometry,” said René Elter, an archaeologist from the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem.
6. Nurse saves baby who stopped breathing on Spirit Airlines flight to Florida
A nurse is being hailed for her heroic actions after she saved a 3-month-old baby who had stopped breathing during a flight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orlando, Florida.
7. Boston Marathon adds nonbinary runner option for 2023 race
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Nonbinary athletes will be able to compete in next year’s Boston Marathon without having to register in either the men’s or the women’s divisions, organisers for the United States’ most popular running event said.
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that-gay-jedi · 4 months
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I think plants should drink blood. I think they should visibly get darker and more vivid in colour and fill out lusciously when there's enough blood for them in the soil. I think there should be plants that have adapted low blood consumption for scarcely populated or peaceful areas and plants that have adapted to being practically saturated, just like we have plants for deserts and rainy areas. I think the blood should have to be absorbed into the soil relatively fresh, blood from previously dead things or stains that dried on another surface just won't get the job done. I think a thirsty plant should have a vaguely threatening look the way an underfed predator does.
When you eat plant based foods they should taste metallic, and cellulose content should correlate to platelet count or something, and you should have to pick which fruit and vegetables you eat carefully if they were fed on human blood in case the antibodies aren't compatible with your own blood type. House plants fed regularly on a small bit of your own blood should oxygenate the air for you better than house plants fed on other blood. Nonlethal bloodletting should be a fundamental agricultural skill. Where blood clinics dispose of unused product an uncanny thicket should grow that isn't cultivated and isn't quite wild, like an algae bloom.
Wild animals should instinctively seek to lie near plants when they're wounded. Hunting animals of the forest instinctively engage their prey where roots crisscross and do the actual feasting and tearing of the kill at the base of a large tree.
In places of massacre and war the imbalances of too much blood in some parts of the soil and too little in others should produce plants whose growth is almost uncontrollable, thorny and horrifically resilient and thirsty enough to choke out anything else that tries to grow there unless every last root is carefully and expertly expunged. Biochemical differences produced by chronic stress or lack thereof, or better or worse nutrition, or even from epigenetic responses to injustice and trauma endured by one's forebears should affect the plants in various ways.
The meeting of chlorophyll and hemoglobin turns plants deep purplish, and whatever the cultural significances of the colour green would be in a given place are transferred onto this colour instead. Shades of fuscia, rust and burgundy are considered restful to the eyes as they denote a healthy field or a vast swath of wilderness. The vibrant reds of spring instead of the verdant greens. Two school kids are about to get into a fight and the teacher angrily pulls them apart and utters some quip about how there are better ways to feed the plants. Blood blood blood.
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therealtruthalways · 7 months
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Dear all, a news digest from an American contact.
Very concerning. The perpetrators evidently intend to do it all over again, based on exactly the same lies.
Scary respiratory virus lies.
Mask mandate lies.
Vaccine mandate lies (read between the lines of the Biden quote).
Lockdowns are an obvious component of the alleged public health emergency, which will be wholly fictitious. How else can they predict what’s going to happen, other than the same people running the scare?
Do not comply.
Best wishes
Mike
Morning Intelligence Report
COVID-19 and the Vaccines
By
Paul E Vallely, MG US Army (Ret)
August 27, 2023
COVID-19 and Vaccines could be the most significant fraud perpetrated on the world and the greatest transfer of wealth to the global elites and organizations like Pfizer. Do not fall into the Trap!
 Inside information exposes that TSA and US Border Patrol will be moving back to 2020-era COVID-19 mandates and restrictions from mid-September through mid-October, including mask mandates on all flights.  This is in addition to the confirmed mask-mandate reinstatement at  Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA, and Lionsgate Studios in Santa Monica, CA. Also, a school district in South Texas just outside San Antonio closed down temporarily due to an ‘uptick’ in COVID cases.
That same week, WarRoom’s Natalie Winters uncovered millions of dollars in funding, awarded primarily to the Department of Veterans Affairs and DoD, to ramp up testing and other COVID-19 related.
This was just a week after the NIH appointed Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a staunch advocate for masks, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates, as the replacement for Dr. Fauci.
To further the suggestion that another lockdown scare is in the forecast, on Tuesday, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced funding of $1.4 billion to “support the development of a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come” according to a press release.
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“Project NextGen is a key part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to keeping people safe from COVID-19 variants,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “These awards are a catalyst for the program – kickstarting efforts to more quickly develop vaccines and continue to ensure availability of effective treatments.”
Project NextGen, a $5 billion initiative led by ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), coordinates across the federal government and the private sector to advance innovative vaccines and therapeutics into clinical trials, regulatory review, and potential commercial availability for the American people. The project builds on a better understanding of COVID-19 – with HHS developing, using, and constantly re-evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of current vaccines and therapeutics for over three years.
Recipients of the awards include:
·         $1 billion to four BARDA Clinical Trial partners to support vaccine Phase IIb clinical trial studies: ICON Government and Public Health Solutions, Inc. of Hinckley, Ohio; Pharm-Olam, LLC, of Houston, Texas; Technical Resources Intl (TRI), Inc, of Bethesda, Maryland; and Rho Federal Systems, Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
·         $326 million to Regeneron to support the development of a next-generation monoclonal antibody for COVID-19 prevention.
·         $100 million to Global Health Investment Corp. (GHIC), the non-profit organization managing the BARDA Ventures investment portfolio, to expand investments in new technologies that will accelerate responses in the future.
·         $10 million to Johnson & Johnson Innovation (JLABS) for competition through Blue Knight, a BARDA-JLABS partnership.
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Three newborn kittens were found almost frozen to death in a rubbish bin on Christmas Day in the town of Boom, near Antwerp.
The kittens were discovered by a woman and her daughter as they were out walking. They have since been transferred to the Stray Cats (Drifpuezen) animal shelter in nearby Rupelstreek.
"They heard squeaks coming out of a garbage can," Claudette of Stray Cats told the Gazet van Antwerpen. "At first they thought it was a bird, but when they figured out where the noise was coming from, they found a kitten. But the squeaking in the rubbish bin continued, and eventually they found two other young kittens hidden amongst the garbage."
Claudette added that when she found the kittens "one was still quite dry, but the other two were soaked and freezing cold. We warmed them up as best we could and gave them something to drink. By Monday morning they were already much better again and had eaten a lot."
Claudette cautioned, however, that had the kittens been discovered a mere few hours later "it would have been too late". She added that the kittens "are still young and remain extremely susceptible to disease", and stressed the need for them to be reunited with their mother.
"We are calling for the person who did this to bring the mother to us," Claudette said. "This can even be done anonymously. These little kittens need the love and warmth of their mother. In addition, her milk contains antibodies to diseases. And the mother must also be extremely upset. She will miss her little ones and will want to be with them. That's normal. We already had a little Christmas miracle: that the kittens were found alive. Now we hope for an even greater miracle: that we find the mother cat."
Claudette added that, because the kittens were discovered — and perhaps even born on — Christmas Day, they each received a Christmas-themed name: Vixi [the female form of 'Vixen'], Rudolf and Dasher — three of the names of Santa's nine reindeer.
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johaerys-writes · 1 year
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Shiro/Keith | Voltron: Legendary Defender | E | Ch. 3/3 
Summary: During a fight with the Galra, Shiro and Keith are sucked into a wormhole and flung to the far edge of the universe. They land on an empty and unfamiliar planet, with no way of contacting the castle, but Keith isn’t too worried. Things could be worse— at least they have each other.
Until Shiro collapses.
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“Blood sugar levels are normal, heart rate a bit elevated but nothing out of the ordinary, liver enzymes intact. Overall, I’d say he’s as healthy as a flimhog in its prime!” Coran says cheerfully as he reads Shiro’s vitals off the chart displayed on the pod’s monitor. “It’s like he was never sick at all.”
“But he was.” Keith frowns, arms crossed before his chest. After making it back to the castle, Coran has kept Shiro in the medbay, running every test on him that there is. Shiro’s looking better now, much better, but Keith can’t shake the worry that still lingers. Shiro was very sick. There was something seriously wrong with him, and it could still be there, ready to come back at any moment.
“What caused those symptoms in the first place?” Keith insists. “Can’t the pod just figure that out?”
Coran purses his lips in thought as he goes over the data again. “Usually, foreign bodies like viruses or bacteria leave some sort of trace after they’re gone, even if it’s just the antibodies the body produces. But there’s nothing here that I can see. Only the imbalances caused by the high fever.”
“I might be able to help,” Pidge says beside Keith. “I got some samples from the planet you were on. Perhaps if I run a quick comparison with similar strains on Earth and the places we’ve visited so far, the results could point us in the right direction. Hopefully it will tell us more about what happened to Shiro.”
Coran ticks some numbers in his data pad, then transfers the information to the main computer. Pidge cracks her knuckles and gets to work, the numbers on the screen reflecting on her glasses as her fingers swiftly tap the keyboard.
Keith waits anxiously while the computer processes the information. Shiro is still in the healing pod. The contact fluid is surrounding him, drifting through his hair like underwater currents. Coran had to give him an anaesthetic to prepare him for the examination, and his features are now soft as if with sleep. It makes Keith’s heart ache.
Just a little bit longer, he thinks. We’re getting you out of there soon.
“Right! That should tell us something.” Pidges presses a button when the computer starts beeping, and a list of numbers a mile long comes up on the screen. Keith can’t make heads or tails of it. “Hmm… that’s interesting.”
“Well?” Keith says, his foot tapping on the floor. “What does it say?”
“It looks like he had some sort of allergic reaction.” Pidge frowns at the screen, her brows pinching together in concentration. “This planet you were on: did you notice anything unusual about it?”
“No… not off the top of my head. It seemed fine to me. The suits didn’t detect anything wrong. The air was clear, just a tad too highly oxygenated.” When Pidge doesn’t respond, only continues to squint at the screen, Keith stomach tightens. “Why? Did you find something?”
“So, the planet’s atmosphere is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, traces of neon and methane and—”
“Yes, just like Earth,” Keith interrupts impatiently. “What else?”
“And,” Pidge says pointedly, “an extensive web of microscopic symbiotic creatures. Now, most planets with some sort of lifeform have those, right? But these are different. They are necessary for the native life to thrive, and impossible to filter from the air. But if they are inhaled by non-native life, they can cause severe anaphylactic shock. Not only that, they seem to be highly aggressive towards alien life-forms, inhabiting the body for a while after until they are successfully dealt with by the immune system, like a bacterial infection. A few seconds of exposure is enough.” She turns back to the screen, staring down the list of strange numbers and symbols. “This is fascinating. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
Keith’s blood runs cold. He stares at Pidge as if he doesn’t understand. “So that’s what made Shiro sick? The air of this planet?”
“That’s what it looks like.”
Keith’s pulse thrums in his ears, making him dizzy. It can’t be— how can that be? It was Keith that told Shiro that the air in that place was okay. It was Keith that told him it was safe to take off their helmets. It was Keith. If he’d noticed earlier… if he’d somehow known—
“It’s all my fault,” he mutters. “I told Shiro— I just looked at the readings on my suit. Everything seemed normal. How were we supposed to know—” He snaps his mouth shut when the lump in his throat makes it difficult to speak. It was all his fault. He was the one that insisted they go after that cruiser in the first place, that dragged them into the wormhole, that put Shiro’s life in danger. He is the one that’s responsible for all this mess.
If it wasn’t for him, Shiro would have been fine. He would have been safe and sound and healthy in the castleship, and none of this would have ever happened.
Keith rakes a hand through his hair and looks away, tries to control his breathing. He can’t lose his cool, not now, not like this. Not in front of everyone. That’s a sure fire way to make everything worse, and that’s the least Keith wants.
“What about me?” he asks, jaw clenched tight.
Coran blinks. “What about you, my boy?”
“I took off my helmet too. I breathed the same air Shiro did. Why didn’t I go into anaphylactic shock too?”
Coran and Pidge exchange a curious look, then go back to staring at the numbers. “You didn’t have any symptoms?” he asks, leaning over Pidge’s shoulder.
“Nope.”
“No fever, no shortness of breath, no lesions?”
“Nothing, I was fine.” Keith shakes his head. “How is it possible that I was fine, and this happened to Shiro?”
“Now that is the million groggery question, Number Two!” Coran says, way too happily given the subject at hand. “One that we shall have to have a look into. But for the time being, let’s get you some anti-allergy medication, shall we? Just to be on the safe side. You never know when those pesky symbiotic creatures might hit!”
Though it is the last thing that Keith wants, he still endures stoically as Coran pricks his finger to take a drop of blood to examine it, then checks his pupils and his mouth with a flashlight that makes his tongue itch. After some careful deliberation and an extensive look through his manual, he hands him a pill, which Keith chases down with some water, and gives him a strict warning not to eat any zogglion fruit or Uggirlon moss juice.
“Though delicious, they are absolutely the worst when in combination with the medicine I just gave you. The reaction could be deadly! I’d stay far away from them right now, if I were you.”
“Yeah, I wasn’t planning on having any, don’t worry,” Keith replies, wrinkling his nose in disgust when he remembers the slimy quality of the zogglion fruit —or whatever it’s called— when Coran presented it to them the week before. Keith isn’t particularly picky with food, but he’d rather starve than eat another bite of that thing.
He waits outside the medbay while Coran runs some last few tests on Shiro. Allura, Hunk and Lance all arrive to keep him company, and though Keith isn’t particularly in the mood to talk, he still appreciates the distraction. He doesn’t really want to be left alone with his thoughts right now. His worry for Shiro, although duller now that he knows he’s okay and can be treated properly if something happens, still feels like a vice, gripping his stomach. He won’t relax until Shiro is there with them, until Keith can talk to him.
As soon as Coran’s tests are done, he drains the healing pod of contact fluid and they all help him carry Shiro to a medical table until the anaesthetic wears off. Keith sits by him on a stool, his knee bouncing restlessly. He wants to be there when Shiro opens his eyes.
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ilvaites · 1 year
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name.    lina   zheng age.     21+    [ 26 by default ] height.     5′8  /  172 cm orientation.     bisexual / biromantic fandom.     fandomless / elysian gv.
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has an older twin brother by two minutes.    they were both abandoned as young children and raised in an orphanage.    inseparable until age ten when her brother gets adopted and the new parents did not want a daughter.    brother was given a different name and a different life,   yet they secretly kept in touch throughout the years.    lina remained in the orphanage until she turned eighteen.
former trained archer and athlete in handgun sports,   having ranked top ten in target precision at all school competitions.    was an okay-ish student,   she showed up and went through the motions.
developed a goal to become a special agent so she can #savelives and take down the #badguys.    this happened after touring one of the training facilities and realized she wanted to do more than exist in the world,   but have an impact on it.
her deductive skills are minimal at best,   but she tends to have lucky gut feelings that . keep ending up correct and nobody really gets it and neither does she.
she finished undergrad at twenty-two with a major in criminology and psychology,   specializing in forensic psychology.    she spent the next two years working as a paid intern for various agencies as she built up her experience and later returned to grad school for a highly competitive forensic psychology program.    realized she’s actually kinda good at what she does and likes it more than just a filler-interest.
after her twenty-fifth birthday,   she became a trainee for a special agent.    this was cut short as she caught news of her brother’s abrupt death,   ruled a suicide.    reluctant to accept this,   she defers her training and transfers to the same university he was attending and switches masters to get accepted asap   ( it’s public health administration,   eek ). 
now living in the same apartment complex her brother used to live in,   lina is determined to find out the real cause of his death and uncover the bullshit lingering within the city. 
except.   well.    the start of the apocalypse happens and she gets scratched by an infected person during one of the first cases,   and is later identified to have a genetic mutation that renders her immune to the disease.   she’s kept under watch by the government for later use of antibodies.   now quarantined in the apartment complex with a bunch of people who equally don’t want to be there,   but it also provides the perfect opportunity for her to  (:  sus out the freaks  (:   with minimal supervision 
personality wise,   lina is highly determined,   loyal,   and can develop tunnel vision when focused.    she cares little for adhering to societal expectations and can’t take piss babies seriously.    lacks a filter in general,   and can come off as airheaded at times but it’s really just to keep herself looking harmless.   lovessssssss animals.    thinks chocolate is gross.    dragon fruit enthusiast. 
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ebitchwriting · 11 months
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Sherry Birkin Headcanons:
Poor little Sherry has precious few good memories of her parents. Not because they were physically or emotionally abusive but because they were both workaholics and inadvertently became neglectful. They were very attentive in the beginning when Sherry was born, but when she was six, and they both got negative annual reviews from their boss, it started going downhill. A few missed bedtime stories here, missed parent/teacher conferences there, then missed birthdays because their deadlines are just too important to ignore. To the point that by the time Sherry is 12 in RE2, she's practically independent. Making sure she goes to bed early, that all her homework is finished and perfect, and making her own food.
It wasn't all bad, though. There were nights were William would take his little girl out for night drives, switching on the radio and letting her pick her favorite pop station until she fell asleep. Vaguely aware of her father carefully scooping her up, who knows how long later, tucking her into bed with a delicate kiss on her forehead. Other nights Annette would take the time to teach little Sherry baking recipes and simple little dishes like scrambled eggs, tuna melts, and mac and cheese. There were a few times her favorite pop singer or boy band just so happened to be performing in the same city, and despite both parents absolutely hating 90's era pop music, they knew Sherry loved it, so they took her to each rare concert, calling the school that she was sick the next day so their little girl can sleep in from the lively night. Sherry even had some happy memories of Uncle Albert, as even more avoidant as he is. Mostly of him babysitting her, relenting on her watching whatever movie she wanted, and him taking her out that one Halloween. He didn't want to wear a costume, but Sherry wouldn't have that and got a sharpie and drew on whiskers and a cat nose. S.T.A.R.S. Team gave him so much shit the next day when the Sharpie wouldn't wash off.
Of course, the precious good memories were buried beneath the traumatic event of Raccoon City. Of being left to fend for herself until Claire and Leon came along. Of being kidnapped by Chief Irons. Of watching her father literally morph into an unrecognizable creature dead set on hunting her down, and that horrific moment where he, it, caught her and implanted the G-virus in her. Everything changed after Raccoon City.
It's already pretty well established how Shery looks up to Claire and Leon as parental figures, and they both did provide her with wonderful memories while she was growing up under the thumb of the government. How they would give her the newest cassette tapes and CDs of her favorite bands. New stuffed animals so that at night she wouldn't feel so alone. New science fiction books and magazines. But, as the years went by, the visits became fewer and farther apart. Letters came less and less, to the point that several years would go by before Sherry was allowed to see either or receive any letters.
As her contact with her chosen parents lessened, the experiment the government would force her to undergo would increase more and more. Specifically when she was transferred under the supervision of Simmons. All under the guise of utilizing her G-Virus antibodies to create vaccines, hopes that the healing properties found in her would be useful against other viruses. Things that no one in their right mind would object to, no matter how painful or invasive the experiment was. If Sherry ever dared to object in her youth, well, Simmons was quite adept at turning it all around to villainize her and shame her until she gave in and continued to be an experiment.
As a result, Sherry as a teenager, was depressed, angry, impulsive, and self-destructive. Sherry couldn't help but obsess over the horrible moment the thing that was her father implanted G-virus in her, forever changing her life. How her parents practically abandoned her at every chance. How stupid she was to think that Claire and Leon would be different from her parents. She would impulsively throw away all the stuffed animals, rip the magazines and books to shreds, and smash the CDs and cassettes. In soul-crushing guilt and shame for assuming the worst and destroying her memories of her chosen parents, she would mutilate her arms, only to see them heal right back. No matter how many broken shards of CDs and broken mirrors she would shove into her appendages, it all healed right back.
After her understandable mental breakdown after the never-ending experiments and never being able to see her chosen parents, Simmons was forced to stop the experiments on Sherry by the government. She couldn't bear it anymore, and the government didn't want their prized humanoid BOW to find a way to kill herself. Simmons was also forced to let her have all the letters and gifts he's been withholding, to allow Claire and Leon to visit her again, and, more importantly, to allow Sherry to start attending therapy.
Therapy was the best thing that ever happened to her. Gave her the tools to reteach herself how she saw herself, what happened to her, and the most important people in her life. Instead of viewing her parents as people who couldn't care less about her, she came to view them as "consumed by their work." As much as she wanted to help and make her infection mean something, she realized all the experiments Simmons was putting her through were destroying her, consuming her as much as her parents' work did them. She realized there were more ways she could help stop what happened to her from happening to others, and took inspiration from Leon(still not knowing he was forced to become an agent).
Which to me explains her mentality and behavior in RE6 and how she explained what happened to her. It clearly still weighs on her heavily but it isn't the mentality of someone festering in guilt, regret, and trauma like Leon or Chris. It's more like Rebecca and Claire, who truly survived and learned to thrive again, to use their experience to motivate them to help in the best way they can. Even when it's revealed that Simmons is behind the creation of the C-Virus and all the attacks across the world, Sherry didn't break. She felt guilty and stupid for trusting Simmons, but she moved forward and set out to stop him.
To Sherry, Jake, and especially when he struggled to accept who his father was and what kind of person that made him, he reminds her of when she was younger and angrier. When she was convinced that she was a monster because of her parents. He reminds her of a person she could have become had she not taken control of her life. She wanted to help him realize he was more than his absent father, more than his C-Virus, and that there was more to life than money. Post RE6 Jake makes her so proud that he took control of his own life and truly becane his own person like she did.
Side note: I also think Sherry and Ashley met through therapy and became fast friends once they realized they were the only ones that could truly understand the trauma they shared of forcefully infected but had the infextion halted before the infection could reach past it's infancy stage. I can see them bonding over their shared desire of being an agent to help stop bioterrorism(a path I don't think Ashley managed to go down unyil post RE6). And of course, them bonding over Leon and how important of a parental(Sherry)/mentor(Ashley) role he played after saving them.
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naturalrights-retard · 7 months
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What is “shedding”? Much like the spread of a live virus, antibodies and spike proteins from vaccines are believed to be spread through bodily fluids and aerosol droplets in our breath. 
However, this mechanism of transferring vaccine particles from one individual to another was pure speculation.  
Until now.  
Pro-vax researchers at the University of Colorado published a study on vaccine shedding and celebrated a tragic conclusion: 
“Our results suggest that aerosol transmission of antibodies may also contribute to host protection and represent an entirely unrecognized mechanism by which passive immune protection may be communicated. Whether antibody transfer mediates host protection will be a function of exposure, but it seems reasonable to suggest, all things being equal, that any amount of antibody transfer would prove useful to the recipient host.” 
Perhaps even more shocking, the authors go on to cite a study suggesting that shedding from vaccinated adults may be an effective way to “immunize” children: 
“A recent publication showed substantial benefits of parental vaccination in reducing the risk of infection in the unvaccinated children in the same home.” 
Dr. Peter McCullough, America’s cardiologist and leading COVID-19 expert, responded, 
“These sad results confirmed our fears about the mRNA-based ‘vaccine’. Beyond the outsized health risks they pose to individuals, these risks may be transferrable to bystanders in their immediate vicinity.” 
However, if you’re worried about being shed on, there are simple precautions you can take to protect yourself. The most recommended solution is a prophylactic daily dose of over-the-counter nattokinase, an enzyme known for its ability to degrade mRNA-bearing spike protein. Per Dr. McCullough:  
“Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.” 
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unopenablebox · 2 years
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bio prelim studying blogpost 1
how to tell if two proteins are touching
proteins are mostly either machines (move/rearrange/break/chemically change a thing) or a usefully shaped object (building blocks of a cage, or a scaffold, or some other important physical structure in the cell), or both. in either case, many protein functions in the body depend on proteins physically interacting with each other. these interactions can happen on a huge range of timescales, from much less than a second to days or years; they can be very tight and sticky interactions, or loose ones that fall apart easily; they can be very specific (protein A binds only protein B to do its function) or very nonspecific (protein A can bind to almost every other protein it meets). as a result, a major concern of experimental biology is finding lots and lots of different ways to check whether two proteins are touching each other, and to describe the properties of that touching
general way 1: looking
you can look to see where things are [citation needed]. if you can make two proteins visible in the cell, then you can look for them on a microscope and check if they are close enough to touch and like to hang out a lot. 
one way to make a protein visible is by making an antibody against it. antibodies are proteins with extremely specific binding activity to one other protein sequence. you can attach a fluorescent dye to an antibody, wash the antibody over the cell, and then look for the dye: the antibody should only stick to the protein you care about. if you do this with two antibodies in different colors you can then look for colocalization of the two signals and find out if your two proteins are near each other. downsides: cell usually needs to be dead to do this; also, if you have a lot of cells in a thick sample, it’s hard to get antibody deep in there.
alternately, you can put the tag directly on the protein by editing its encoding gene, so that when the protein is made there is a fluorescent protein attached to the end. upside: works in live cells so you can watch the proteins bop around and see how long-lasting the interactions are; don’t need to make an antibody or do lots of washing and processing steps. downsides: gene editing can be hard; attaching a protein to the end of your existing protein can screw up its shape and thus its function, including possibly the binding activity you cared about in the first place.
imaging to look for protein interaction is limited by the fact that two things being next to each other does not guarantee they are touching. this is especially true since proteins are much smaller than the wavelength of light that we can image, meaning that we see giant blurs of light that might appear to overlap even if the proteins in question are actually 200 nanometers apart (for reference, proteins are like 1-10 nanometers wide usually). you can do lots of optics-based tricks, both physically by varying the amount of light reaching the sample to image it, and computationally by calculating the point-spread function of the dye, to try to resolve smaller and smaller things. this makes it a lot more likely that two things that look adjacent are touching, but still doesn’t guarantee it.
there is one more Neat Trick for looking for protein touching. this is called FRET (Forster resonance energy transfer). FRET works because each fluorescent protein takes in one color of light and puts out another. for example, turquoise fluorescent protein (mTurquoise) absorbs violet light and puts out blue-green light. meanwhile, yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) absorbs blue-green light and puts out yellow light. if you put the two proteins very close to each other, YFP can absorb the output from mTurquoise. since this only works if they are extremely close, usually less than 7 nm (about the width of a protein), you can make a pretty confident prediction about whether two proteins are close enough to touch if you consistently put in purple light and get back yellow light. this is hard because it’s quite tough to figure out where to attach the fluorescent proteins so that they’ll have the right orientation and be close to each other, and often just doesn’t work for technical reasons.
general way 2: pulling
if you pull on one protein and it brings along another protein, those two proteins were touching. upon this rock is founded the entire field of protein biochemistry.
a big genre of “looking for things that were touching” is the pulldown. this is where you have a way of specifically sticking one of your proteins to a surface, and then you can check what other proteins can now also stick to the surface. i will explain the general procedure:
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first, get a way to stick Protein A to your surface (which is probably a bead inside a tube, for reasons not important at this time). this might be an antibody against Protein A that you chemically conjugate to the surface. it might also be a protein tag you’ve genetically added to Protein A, like the fluorescent protein above but this time with something sticky that will stick to a chemical, like nickel or glutathione, on the bead surface.
next, get some cells that have Protein A in them. use a lysis buffer that dissolves them into goop and lets you get the proteins out from inside them. take your slurry of cell goop, possibly lightly purified to remove lipids and stuff, and mix it with your beads. then rinse the beads off so no unattached goop can remain. what you should end up with are beads that have attached to them 1) Protein A 2) whatever was sufficiently good at sticking to Protein A to remain through the washing 3) hopefully nothing else.
at this point there are various things to do to your beads that let you remove the binding partners of Protein A, usually involving rinsing them with different chemicals until you find one that chemically disrupts Protein A-Unknown Protein B binding and lets you retrieve the unknown proteins. then you do a bunch of stuff to find out what proteins they were (combination of running them on gels to find out their sizes, checking which chemicals fucked with their binding to guess other stuff, using antibodies to check if they're something particular, and nowadays mostly mass spectrometry which is by far the best way to find out what a protein is from no information. i’m not explaining mass spec rn)
as you can tell this has kind of the opposite problem of the imaging-based assays. you are pretty sure these proteins were touching, and you can guess how strong the protein touching was based on what kind of washing it withstood, but you know a lot less about when and where this happens or how long it lasts. this is kind of nice because if you combine these approaches then you have .... More Information
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there are lots of other ways kind of like this of checking if two proteins were touching. i’ll describe two because i happen to be thinking of them and they’re usefully different from a pulldown
one is co-sedimentation. this is based on the principle that some kinds of biological structures-- big cytoskeletal protein fibers like actin, lipid droplets, etc-- have different sizes and densities, which mean that when you centrifuge them (spin them very fast in a tube as though to impose extreme gravity), some of them will sink to the bottom of the tube (sediment) faster than others. you can then check whether proteins normally too small to sediment at a certain speed are nonetheless at the bottom of the tube. this means they were probably physically bound to whatever else you sedimented. this only works for checking binding between very different sizes of thing but it’s good for some stuff and was very popular in the olden days.
the other is the yeast two-hybrid binding assay. this one is weird. basically, there are proteins called transcription factors (TFs) that are required to recruit the RNA-making machinery to a particular gene. one end of the TF is the DNA-binding domain, that finds the particular part of the DNA that needs to be transcribed into RNA. the other is the activation domain, that touches the RNA polymerase and recruits it to the right gene. you can separate these domains and genetically attach one of them to one protein and the other to a different protein. the result is two fusion proteins: DNA-binding domain + Protein A, and activation domain + Protein B. you put both of these in a yeast, and if Protein A and Protein B bind to each other, then their interaction will bridge the DNA-binding and activation domains of the TF and lead to transcription of whatever particular gene the TF controls. you then check whether the TF-controlled gene got made (usually you use something visible or easily chemically measured), and if it did, that means your two proteins bind each other. this one is annoying to set up and has a lot of weird false positives and false negatives, so we don’t use it that much any more, but it was also big in The Past.
there are many more ways to check if proteins touch but many of them operate on one of the basic principles described here. unless they don’t and you can comment rudely reminding me about them.
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assuming you know about antigens and antibodies in blood, the different blood types differ based on how many there are and where they are located on a blood cell! while theres actually A LOT of blood types/blood groups, theyre usually rare and the mostly talked about ones are groups A, B, AB, and O, and their corresponding alignment of positive or negative based on if they have another type of protein attached to them. humans can transfer blood to others in order to do stuff like save the life of someone who lost a lot of blood et, but the blood types have to be compatible or else it would be life threatening
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"Oh, please do tell me more!"
>Excitement and fascination fill his voice and eyes
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