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Wed. 12/16 - What Pfizer Can Learn From Dippin’ Dots


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Genetically-engineered pigs have gotten the all clear. Digging into the field of galactic archaeology. And how Dippin’ Dots can help us better understand the leading COVID-19 vaccines, and may play a role of their own.

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  • Links:

    FDA approves genetically engineered pigs (The Verge) 
  • Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemic (MIT Technology Review) 
  • Galactic archaeology: astronomers are using stars as fossils to study the Milky Way (Horizon Magazine)
  • What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines (Popular Science)
  • The world's now scrambling for dry ice. It's just one headache in getting coronavirus vaccines where they need to go (CNN)
  • A vial, a vaccine and hopes for slowing a pandemic — how a shot comes to be (Washington Post)
  • Dippin' Dots Cryogenics (Dippin’ Dots)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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