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[barbatusart]

antigen* part 6

#antigen* #covid 19 #mug

[mobydyke]

the cdc website be like "if you find a four leaf clover, you're safe to end isolation"

#ace txt #just covid thoughts #posts brought to u by me antigen testing positive on day 8 and trying to navigate their guidelines

[er-cryptid]

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[rhysintherain]

For a show about diagnostic medicine, House does shockingly little actual diagnosis.

"Start him on antibiotics." Have you seen a bacteria? No? That's because apparently nobody on your team knows how to grow a culture or run a gram stain.

"It's probably cancer, start him on radiation." Without finding the cancer?? Without knowing what it is so you can decide on a treatment plan??

Very funny that actual diagnosis is too boring for House, so he just throws treatments at people until it almost kills them and demonstrates what the problem isn't.

#'checking for a bacterial infection will take too long' #dude i have personally had cultures grow in 12 hours #you don't need a mature diagnostic growth pattern you just need enough to throw some antibiotic discs on to see what kills it #throw it on a half dozen selective growth mediums at the start to see what sticks #pretty sure agar and the incubator are cheaper than antibiotics #cancer is pretty easy to diagnose so y'all could at least try lmao #you somehow rule out MS in 15 minutes #even though everyone i know who has it waited 5-10 years for a diagnosis #so spend a little time of the fucking boring cancer please? #I'm not even gonna touch antigen tests for viral infections #you people went to med school even if the writers who created you didn't #act like it #House MD

[bpod-bpod]

Gather Round

The immune system's B cells recognise their foe (antigens) with receptors (also known as immunoglobulin or antibody) on their cell surface. Here, super resolution microscopy combined with 4D image analysis reveals how these receptors on the cell surface localise into clusters as ridges and finger-like projections called microvilli to aid recognition of their targets

Read the published research paper here

Video adapted from work by Deniz Saltukoglu and colleagues

Department of Molecular Immunology, Biology III, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in The EMBO Journal, January 2023

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#science #biomedicine #biology #immunology #immunoglobulin #B cells #immune system #antibody #antigen #lattice light-sheet microscopy #super resolution microscopy #4D imaging

[transingthoseformers]

I am having so many ideas for how this AU spirals into a larger one, but back to, a bit, Trepan, our "poor" Protagonist.

Trepan also recognizes Rung regularly and instantly. They are both much older, and Trepan remembers him vaguely from his co-worker Froid, having previously mentioned him occasionally. Heat first, he thinks he has an ally before Rung firmly contradicts him. Rung however went toe-to-toe with the Functionalist Council for literally generations and if Trepan thought Ratchet, who was still in his Prime, was annoying then the one ornamental who survived that hell while more mildly mannered is a far different creature. Especially when he keeps seeing through Trepan and is able to see what is going on.

Trepan is even tenser about Rung seeing through him because he does NOT want to come under review and is determined to be fine even when he isn't. His and Ratchet's habits are mixing, and it is getting worse. He spends a lot of his time off getting caught up on reading medical journals and reviewing techniques, a habit they had in common, but doesn't even realize he's been reading and understanding an article on virology or how out of character it is until a Pharma visits.

The official story is Trepan was attacked by a patient and us on forced recovery time.

He is checking up on his friend who is on forced vacation, lights up slightly, and gets excited or as excited as the morose jet has been lately. He had been wanting to read it himself and said he thought Antigen's discussion about the infection patterns was interesting and Trepan automatically counters it failed to take into account disease lingering in lower levels and places like the Dead End due to lack of equal treatment and if they really wanted to propose an effective counter, free and readily available virus screenings and treatments for ALL including casteless was needed.

Trepan begins to passionately argue for free and compassionate health practices, and Pharma looks ready to cry because he's both happy with his friend/semi-mentor, and he having more overlapping interests, and it reminds him of Ratchet. He mentions he's sad Ratchet never gave Trepan a chance because it turns out they had more in common than expected and apologizes for being weepy. Pharma leaves, not realizing he's thoroughly terrified Trepan who is reeling at what "he" said and throws the datapad away from him like he was scalded.

Trepan proceeds to go get drunk and try to pick someone up as a distraction only to balk because he can't remember if he is operating under his or Ratchet's preferences which is a very, very bad sign.

Trepan realizes his work may have had a point and spends the time reorganizing his mind and using an at home computer as a buffer to try and partition off the data ghost and rebuild his defenses. He can see where the contamination has started and blended and surgically goes through each and every memory file but only manages about 60%.

He knows safety standards mean he should request an extension, but he is feeling enough like himself to want to go back to work. It helps at first with him using his breaks to continue recovery, though he is still regulated to light work and teaching for the most part.

By the time he is given his newest personal assignment, he is up to 85% and fully confident and only occasionally slipping.

He thinks he is ready.

Oooo on Trepan remembering Rung too, and it's because of Froid.

Trepan: wait I can use him!

Rung: think a–fucking–gain bitch

Rung's got many opinions on Trepan, especially considering how Rung basically adopted Pharma too. Rung's been around long enough to see Trepan for the Senate's hound he is.

And for the intriguing behavioral changes which have gotta fascinate Rung at some level

Ooo on Trepan engaging in virology research

For once, Trepan is right and we know why. In order to truly stifle a disease, you've gotta treat it at every possible point even in people you don't like. But also free and easily accessible healthcare. And advocating for more ethical practices in the cybertronian medical system. Yeppp, that's Ratchet bits alright. oh Pharma. you truly miss him.

Trepan has Opinions™️ on what just happened, and he's afraid to hit on anyone in the case he's gotten (in his opinion) Ratchet's bad taste in mecha too.

Look I know Cybertronian computers are probably more advanced but I imagined one of those old 2004 clunky monitors and the world's most plain desk, which is moderately hilarious.

MN yes of course he wants to get back to work, you're not fully you but work is more important than that I suppose.

He thinks he is ready

Is he?

#i don't know if Antigen is canon or an oc but that's a great transformers name #maccadam #transformers #mtmte trepan #mtmte ratchet #mtmte pharma #of two minds au #mtmte froid #okay but free_ easily accessible_ and adequate healthcare #BUT FREE HEALTHCARE

[izvmimi]

mimiloves!! in the mimidoriyaverse, do you have a quirk?

yup! in some aus i'm quirkless but in most of them i have a quirk and it's like 80% of the time the same quirk

#mimi replies #treasures: amira #i stimulate or stop signal transduction pathways with electrical pulses #it has a lot of medical use #in my yan au i can store my memories/dreams into objects #but idk if i'll ever write that #mostly action figures/dolls #in another horror fic that i only wrote one chapter of #reader (me) can swap cell antigens

[pandemichub]

New methods for testing need to be standardized, well communicated and disseminated. These posts describe testing approaches that are experimental and still, may be of interest and or benefit so I decided to share.

*Note: Please continue to test. And try to request PCR if possible. Getting a record of your illness will be important for your health records and contact tracing. If you experience disability as a result of your infection. Covid is still here, and to the best of our ability we must try to record, notify, trace, research, treat and find treatments, and prevent it's spread. The importance of this has not waned and neither has the virus.*

Be thoughtful, wise, responsible and protect your health and others.

#Rapid Antigen Test #Rapid Antigen Tests #Testing #RATs #Covid Testing #Noha Aboelata MD #Emma Andollie #Covid-19 #Covid 19 #SARs CoV-2 #Covid #The Pandemic #Pandemic #Public Health

[slimynematode]

busy at school making helmets

#the bottom two aren't really finished at all but the top one was for the art exam today #it has a mask respirator too but i'm going to rework it when i get the chance #the spiked helmet at the bottom is for the water tower knight oc i have #and the bird looking one is kind of a mix of antigen (robot) and winslow leach #i still need to add all the leather and golden studs to that one too! while i spray paint the other one gold #(knight helmet has a moveable visor mechanic btw i was thinking of doing that for the goggles too #the meat one will be my last one #doctor carapace

[pandemic-info]

Evolving peak SARS-CoV-2 loads relative to symptom onset may influence home-test timing | CIDRAP

Median SARS-CoV-2 viral loads, as measured by polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold (Ct) and antigen concentrations, rose from symptom onset, peaking on the fourth or fifth day of symptoms. Estimated rapid antigen test sensitivity was 30.0% to 60.0% on the first day, 59.2% to 74.8% on the third, and 80.0% to 93.3% on the fourth.

Plain English:

Highest viral load is ~4-5 days into symptom onset, which means you're most likely to test positive about a week after an initial infection.

That also means that if you're IC/HR/etc. (or healthy & just don't want a disease that has a high chance of turning into long-term disability) and need to isolate from someone who's likely been exposed, the "quarantine" period should be at least 4-5 days, if not up to a week.

This has been the case for several years, not new, and corroborated by virologists and epidemiologists I've spoken to about their own protocol for infection avoidance.

#covid #article #research #cidrap #quarantine #viral load #peak viral load #masking #avoiding covid #sars cov 2 #rapid antigen test #rapid tests #RAT

[barbatusart]

antigen* part 7 (end)

#mug #covid 19 #antigen*

[tagapagsalaysay]

Man wearing a mask stopped nothing I still got sick. Why dont sick people at uni wear masks. Honestly I do take off my mask when I'm sweating like crazy but I fulfill multiple requirements first

1. Outdoors (Like the oval)

2. No person within 10 meters

3. I'm not feeling sneezy or coughy

but that hasnt done shit. Idek if i got sick at uni or because I went home and my aunt has an unchecked cold

#post #Need to buy antigen pack too but i need to ask mom for money

[er-cryptid]

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[borrelia]

experiencing physical pain trying to describe my phd thesis while avoiding words like "protein" and "expression site" and "antigenic variation" and "homologous recombination" but reminding myself that i have to do that if i want to be able to explain it to like. engineers. engineers dont know those words. they would get so scared

#myaa #do kids today know what proteins are? can I say protein??? #what about antigen do they know that word? #'kids' meaning 'graduate students not in molecular biosciences'

[saltinesinsoup]

me sitting up: i feel normal if not a little sick

me lying down: my head is a submarine the pressure is intense. and post nasal drip

me at school today: sweatiest person alive and 100% obviously sick w something

#jaytalking #in other news i may or may not have covid for real (testing tomorrow morning) #bc i tested negative last night and ive heard the antigen tests aren’t great at detecting until around 3~ days of symptoms #also tumblr you’re the first to hear of this

[theirloveisgross]

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#For some reason i have 'the adults are talking' on loop in my head #I think it played a few times at work today maybe that's why #Anyway... Bedtime #I officially have a cold #I did an antigen test and it isn't covid but who knows #I think we're all now more likely to get colds than before because of covid #It sucks #Last time I had a cold was in October so not too long ago #Ah well #I'll sleep a few hours