I feel like all the coverage of this leaves out a massive gaping logical hole.
Like anti-venom / anti-bodies are produced by injecting a horse with venom and then collecting the anti-bodies it produces as a result.
In this situation our man Tim is that horse, and he had to inject himself with 900 different venom injections to produce these broad anti-bodies.
Is the plan going forward, to give horses 900 different venom injections to try and recreate this? Is there a synthetic way of making a known anti-body that they’re not mentioning? If there is, then why are we still injecting horses with so much snake venom?
I feel like all the coverage of this leaves out a massive gaping logical hole.
Like anti-venom / anti-bodies are produced by injecting a horse with venom and then collecting the anti-bodies it produces as a result.
In this situation our man Tim is that horse, and he had to inject himself with 900 different venom injections to produce these broad anti-bodies.
Is the plan going forward, to give horses 900 different venom injections to try and recreate this? Is there a synthetic way of making a known anti-body that they’re not mentioning? If there is, then why are we still injecting horses with so much snake venom?