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minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down4·edit-27 days agoUhh… pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot… Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?
minus-squareDrMartinu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·7 days agoYeah I don’t think the star trek writers are even trying to include the eventual inhumane ramp up of the miracle cure production either. Some lab is probably chucking those lizards into a blender.
minus-squarenormanwall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·6 days agohttps://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/horseshoe-crab-blood-miracle-vaccine-ingredient.html I think it’s Horseshoe crab blood being extracted for vaccines
minus-squareWhostosay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 days agoHorseshoe crab blood collection. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoThis isn’t even the first lizard based medicine. There have been several different ones. Notably GLP-1s.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoGotta get that lizard neck
Uhh… pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot… Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?
Yeah I don’t think the star trek writers are even trying to include the eventual inhumane ramp up of the miracle cure production either.
Some lab is probably chucking those lizards into a blender.
What am I looking at?
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/horseshoe-crab-blood-miracle-vaccine-ingredient.html
I think it’s Horseshoe crab blood being extracted for vaccines
Horseshoe crab blood collection.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi
This isn’t even the first lizard based medicine. There have been several different ones. Notably GLP-1s.
Gotta get that lizard neck