Spoke to someone from @moderna_tx this week at a conference. Weirdly, SARS2 vaccines came up! I was told that 3 separate new large-scale syntheses were prepped last Yr, with only one (XBB) eventually used. These are $bn processes. Hence, vax sales need to recoup this outlay...

So, presumably if @JoeBiden can garner the support of various salad plants...🤪 BBC News - Liz Truss endorses Donald Trump to win US presidential election www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-pol…

Proud and excited to see Dr Russell Hughes from my group present his seminal work on virus-driven Immunotherapy for #LiverCancer at #Microbio24 in therapeutics session @MicrobioSoc Preprint here if of interest... www.biorxiv.org/content/1…

Looking forward to seeing @OncoVirus_Leeds speaking at #Microbio24 about virus-driven cancer... @MicrobioSoc Ready to go...

Can't help wondering which platitudes certain commentators might use if #H5N1 were to become a major human problem... "It's just the...blank" Wrong answers only 🤪