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RE: The great internal war with the viruses - Episode 1 - The initial response to infection

in StemSocial3 years ago

Well, I have been working with viruses for over 8 years now. And I and my colleagues have isolated the virus and done the studies including cryo EM imaging. So, I find it hard to believe otherwise, since I have done the work with my hands.

Now, coming to your article. Well a virus does use the process of exocytosis. One of the ways virus gets out of the cell is by pinching the membrane of the most cell and carrying pieces of host membrane out with it. Now it's easy to confuse this with exosomes. But there is streak differences when you compare viruses vs exosomes.

  • Virus membrane contains proteins that are not part of the host genome. For corona virus you can actually see that in cryoEM. The spikes actually protrude out the membrane giving it a crown like look.
  • Virus particle also contains core proteins that are not part of the host genome.
  • Virus particles contain nucleic acid which contains the sequence of virus specific proteins
  • Unlike exosomes, when you put virus on the susceptible cell (that is cell that contains the protein that binds to virus), it make new virus particles containing proteins encoded by the virus genome and it multiples in numbers. Usually in out experiments when we put 1x103 particles on 1x105 cells and collect media of these cells after 72 hours we get around 10^7 virus particles per ml. WE can also see the increase in copy number of the virus specific genes using a qPCR.

Also, I tried opening the link in your post where I can claim the reward. It says 404. I would have loved to try to win that award. While your post says that we do since for money, it's not true. I have been living at income of $500 per for over 9 years now, doing nothing but science. That's how low you get paid to do academic science. Only very very tiny share of academic work actually ends up getting translated into an industrial product and end up making money for any person in academics ever. So if just proving existence of virus can pay off like 1.5 million euros much, I would try my luck 😁.

Anyhow that aside, looking forward for your inputs on what you think about my response and if you would like to talk more about it.

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Many thanks for alerting me to the removal of my link from the internet however I found a copy on the wayback machine which you may wish to respond to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210616203940/https://www.samueleckert.net/isolat-truth-fund/

I don't believe in viruses.... this makes more sense to me:

UPDATE: 08/10//2021
Finally a journalist interviews Christine Massey! Now we must make some progress xx

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/10/07/the-non-existent-virus-explosive-interview-with-christine-massey/

 3 years ago  

Thanks for the archived link. But since the link is down are they still paying though?

Contact them. I cannot advise.