press on!

new — and the final — semester starts today. i'm excited about it, and i'm adequately terrified of both said semester and college ending, so it seems like a good mix

Ceramics by Johnson Tsang

going on my daily silly little walk for my silly little mental health in between study sessions

A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world. Human trials have shown the vaccine to be safe and effective, with India already authorizing its use as production ramps up to over 100 million doses per month. The vaccine has been named Corbevax and it is based on a traditional protein-based technology that has been safely used for decades. Like other COVID-19 vaccines, Corbevax focuses on the coronavirus spike protein, but instead of using mRNA to direct our cells to produce those spike proteins internally it delivers lab-grown spike proteins to the body. The researchers took the gene that codes for the spike protein and engineered yeast to produce it. These proteins are collected, purified, and combined with an adjuvant to enhance immune responses. This exact method has been used to produce the hepatitis B vaccine for years. “Protein-based vaccines have been widely used to prevent many other diseases, have proven safety records, and use economies of scale to achieve low-cost scalability across the world,” says Maria Elena Bottazzi, one of the lead researchers on the project.

article: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-12/creator-of-patent-free-covid-19-vaccine-multinationals-should-be-more-altruistic-when-calculating-their-profits.html

i'm back, and messier better than ever, ft. a giant croissant stuffed with cream and a bunch of old bookshelf finds

bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark !!

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

2022

i literally get what marie kondo was talking about now

Today I found a new bowl! In its center is a little hill with a little house. I will carry it down to the shore and fill it up, and whomever lives in that little house can have a tiny portion of my meal. I hope they have a nice bowl to put it in..

chai, weird magazines, & Indian art books for 2

Ig : kylie_n_bright

2021