Bioinformatics fans here is an update on Foldit by the Creators of Rosetta@home

In this update the foldit crew does an update on the software on Deep mind and latest analysis on the protein folding in relation to SARS-CoV-2 and MERS binder design as of New Years weekend 2021. This video will explain the folding mechanisms of the protein of interest in detail in relation to the folding project on foldit.

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Can We Make A Vaccine Against Smoking?

This segment sounds good but we need to be careful here or we end up where we started in 2021 vaccines becoming political.

Texas governor bans vaccine passports from being required in state ABC News

Thats Right States like Texas and Florida got the Vaccine Passport Conspiracy from Del Bigtree. https://abc7.com/politics/texas-governor-bans-vaccine-passport-requirement-in-state/10491161/ AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Tuesday morning prohibiting state agencies or political subdivisions in Texas from creating a "vaccine passport" requirement. Conversation has grown around vaccine passports recently as an option that can be used for travel or even eating out . They are typically described as an app with a code that verifies if someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for COVID-19. They're already in use in Israel, and in development in parts of Europe. But Abbott shut that down as an option in the Lone Star State with Executive Order No. GA - 35 also prohibiting "organizations receiving public funds from requiring consumers to provide documentation of vaccine status in order to receive any service or enter any place....

Anti-Vax Conspiracies strike back in the USA July 2021 Original Article

Thumbnail credit by Jeff Holiday Production In the past few weeks the anti-vax lobby has ratcheted up the ante on their lobbying efforts. The event that kicked off this new wave of anti-vax scares was the "Knock on the Door rants" according to the Washington Post on a July 9th article they cited rants by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laurent Boebert in a political rally that sparked the scare. "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) got the ball rolling Tuesday by comparing the effort to “ medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations .” Not to be outdone, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) took to Twitter the next day to offer her own Nazi comparison, labeling the door-knockers “ needle Nazis .” If anyone should know the folly of such metaphors, it would seem to be Greene, who just three weeks prior conceded in an apology after another wayward Nazi/coronavirus comment that “ there is no comparison to the Holocaust .” And it’s worth emphasizing that there is...

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