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Re:Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Co... by __blockcipher__ on Friday August 07, 2020 @01:57AM (#24078820)
It should theoretically be a lot more scalable to just culture en masse. Since you’re not doing any modifications.

Altho if they required testing of the culture to ensure no mutation that would slow things down

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Re:Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Co... by vibrio on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:59AM (#24079484)
Growing wild-type coronavirus is easier than making the current vaccine approaches? How/Why? As someone familiar with virology and cGMPs, I don’t see how that is the case.
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Re:Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Co... by __blockcipher__ on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:45PM (#24086774)
My thinking is that culturing massive amounts is incredibly scalable since there's no need to inactivate or perform other steps to render the virus safe. You're just culturing a fuckton of virus in a medium like agar.
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