In response to a vaccine, your body makes thousands and thousands of different an bodies. Only some of them are powerful neutralizers that do stick in kill the virus. So we all make many, many anbodiess called poly clonal polly for many clones,. For individual anabody, clons. We go into the mice and then and we find the single best anabody which is a clone of an anabody. And our cocktail is a mixture of, actually, just by accident, could have been both from mice or both from human. But we got a spectacular anabody from a mouse, and we got another spectacular annibody from human.
What is the Omicron Variant? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss the emergence of the new Omicron Variant of COVID-19 with biomedical scientist and president of Regeneron, George Yancopoulos.
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