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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by topbanana on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:04PM (#25037591)
My understanding is that the -80C storage is most likely simply because they haven't tested at higher temperatures yet.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by alexfromapex on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:06PM (#25037613)
Probably due to DNA storage because I used to work with genomics and we had the same temps
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by asdff on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:55PM (#25041792)
RNA* You can leave DNA out on your bench for a month and it will be fine.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by refurb on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:19AM (#25043789)
I'm highly skeptical. Needing -80C is a major disadvantage. Pfizer would have collected stability data at higher temperatures if they could get it.

The fact it's -80C means they can't prove it stable at higher temperatures.

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