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A New Technology Is Helping To Save The Florida Citrus Industry With A “Shot In The Arm”

A New Technology Is Helping To Save The Florida Citrus Industry With A “Shot In The Arm”

The Cambridge Dictionary defines the familiar idiom, “a shot in the arm” as “something that has a sudden, strong, positive effect on something.” It apparently came into popular language as early as 1916, long before the connection between a “shot” became the delivery method for immunization with the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955. Putting aside the political controversies that have recently risen around getting an injection to prevent COVID infection, there are many beneficial human health therapies that are delivered through an injection (antibiotics, pain medications, cortisone…). There are also reasons that plants can benefit from “getting a shot,” but that has been difficult to do.

Plants get sick too, but unlike humans most of their diseases are caused by fungi

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Experimental COVID shot made via egg-based technology elicits a higher antibody proportion than mRNA vax

Experimental COVID shot made via egg-based technology elicits a higher antibody proportion than mRNA vax

Neutralizing activity of vaccinee and convalescent serum samples against wild-type SARS-CoV-2 and Delta and Beta variants. Neutralization was measured against (A) wild-type SARS-CoV-2 strain USA-WA01/2020, (B) a Delta (B.1.617.2) isolate, and (C) a Beta (B.1.351) isolate in a microneutralization assay with authentic SARS-CoV-2. For vaccine groups, n = 35, nBNT162b2 = 20, and nHCS = 18. The exception is n3μg = 34 in (B) and n3μg = 31 in (C); n1 μg = 34 nd n3μg + ODN1018 = 34 in (C); and the nplacebo = 34 in (A) and nplacebo = 32 in (B) and (C), due to a lack of sample volume. Bars show GMT, and error bars indicate SD of the GMT. The horizontal dotted lines indicate the limit of detection; values ​​below the limit of detection were assigned a value of half

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