Marwane
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Data Scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research. Really serious about taking it easy.
Reposted by Marwane
“Every year, over 700,000 horseshoe crabs are caught and bled. The global vaccine industry uses an estimated 600 million chicken eggs a year to produce influenza vaccines. And we boil between 420 billion and 1 trillion silkworms every year to produce silk.”
Could we replace them with synthetic bio?
Could we replace them with synthetic bio?
Animals as chemical factories - Works in Progress
Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale the...
worksinprogress.co
December 6, 2024 at 8:42 AM
“Every year, over 700,000 horseshoe crabs are caught and bled. The global vaccine industry uses an estimated 600 million chicken eggs a year to produce influenza vaccines. And we boil between 420 billion and 1 trillion silkworms every year to produce silk.”
Could we replace them with synthetic bio?
Could we replace them with synthetic bio?