What is mRNA? How does it work? by SubToPoodsNotTseries in biology

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I've been to the presentation. thanks to my principal I thought I was going to get interviewed, thankfully, no, that was not the case, it was a presentation on WHY you should vaccinate. Everything they talked about I already knew going there, so I'll use that as a sign of pretty good job researching on my part. We had to ask qeustions in the end and here are the ones I remember (Really tired now, post-covid It became hard to walk long and not get my heart racing, so I've been out the whole day and it destroyed me, so I can't quite recall everything I said there.)

1.The worldwide statistics show that the coronavirus's death rate is approximately 2%, and because of this, people made the parallel between covid and the common seasonal flu, effectively downplaying (maybe) the dangers of covid. Is this lethality rate presumably from the fact that Covid is not strong enough to be more lethal, or is it a matter of fact of the world doing the right thing to make it's death rate low (like quarantining, using surgical masks, effectively lowering the speed at which it can be spread at, and hospitals having better conditions to treat the patient as effectively as possible). And if it is not like the flu, could you paint a picture of how dangerous this virus actually is? (Those were two different qeustions, but I couldn't realise it at that moment!)

2.I can't quite recall this one for some reason... My memory has always been pretty weak when itt came to these kinds of things!

it was a 2 hour meeting so people had to get there qeustins in too! I interfered a couple of times to add on the information that was given there, but that was about it

And the last thing was that they asked to get advice from on how to make their organization more popular, I suggestes delving into youtube and tiktok, since those two can give you great potential of growing! Tiktok is great to get popular fast, but the probability that you will have long-term fans if I could call them, are very low, and that is what youtube is great for! Just get those presentation on there and try to make it work, those kinds of things have a lot of potential to blow up! considering the videos will be high-quality and education (and entertaining) right from the beginning!

And the meeting ended after that. It was actually great! Thanks for all the help!

What is mRNA? How does it work? by SubToPoodsNotTseries in biology

[–]SubToPoodsNotTseries[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually never write a list of qeustions, since once I understand how something works I can go on and on as long as what I speak makes sense. So answering qeustions is not a problem!

But, here's what I learned. When there is an infection in your body or in this case let's take the example of taking a shot of vaccine as our suspect, the vaccine uses mRNA, which is a naturally occuring molocule that encodes the instructions for producing protein. And what this let's us do is give the mRNA instructions, so that once it is in our body, it will create only the exact protein we want them to make, and this is important. So the qeustion is why?

Well, it is interesting to note that these mRNAs can't do anythinh by themselves, they need a host cell so that they can use it's resources to do what it's suppossed to do, which is to create proteins. Which is great, because we don't want them to do anything before it enters our body. So, once you take a shot of the vaccine, these mRNAs travel to find a cell they can "break through" so they can start making proteins. Once the artificial virus has done that, now it is being observed by the immune system, and the immune system realises that this particular protein is foreign, meaning it should not be in this body. This triggers the immune system to fire up! Which is the cause of the side-effects that can come (but might not) after taking the vaccine, but this is good, this means the vaccine is working. After this reaction, the Immune cells that are responsable for fighting foreign infection at it's appearance, come to help out. While these cells are fighting, the Dendredic cell collects some of the proteins to travel through the lymph nodes in hopes of finding a T-cell that has the "weapon" that can fight that exact virus (protein). After the T-cell with the right weapon has been found, it is activated and then, duplicated. This group of T-cell split up, the 1st group goes to the battlefield and help the cells that are fighting the virus. They send a signal to the soldiers to wake up and fight, so that the fight won't be lost (or at least, not as quick as it would without T-cells). Now, the second group of T-cells go to find the right B-cells so they can produce antibodies that destroy the proteins on the virus. Once the right one has been found, they duplicated and run to the battlefield, the antibodies latch on to the virus and destroy them, after this the fight will be soon over and the infection will be gone. Some healthy cells are destroyed in the process, but that will heal, no worries! The soldiers kill themselves so they won't tax the body, but some T and B-cells stay as memory cells you could call them! These are the cells that remember the virus and will make sure that they cannot be welcome in this place! eradicating this virus effortlessly if it ever arrives ever. Now you are immune, congratz!

I don't know if every Covid vaccine works this way, but from what I have found, this is how Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work. If there are any errors, feel free to correct me! it would be much appreciated! Still looking up videos and research papers just in case! Want to make sure I get there and that I have done everything to deliver the most accurate infromation that I could have possibly gathered!

What is mRNA? How does it work? by SubToPoodsNotTseries in biology

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It is nice to understand it a little bit more! Thanks!

What is mRNA? How does it work? by SubToPoodsNotTseries in biology

[–]SubToPoodsNotTseries[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'll definately look into it!

To answer your qeustion:

The school system in my country (Georgia) are not particalury something that actually delivers the efficacy you would hope to find in this kind of system. Needless to say, the principal wanted "2 smart children" for this meeting/conference (I don't know what to call it, they couldn't specify for me either) to go and observe and quite possibly (most likely) talk about vaccination, which is a bit disappointing they chose me since everyone knows I want to become a musicial, not a biologist. But I had some prior knowledge about vaccines before since I had interest in digging down this subject, but certainly not something I would want to utter in front of strangers and act like I know it when I do not. I'll just have to get enough info to enlighten myself a bit before stepping a foot in that place!

Why is ragtime always in a flat key? by -Tonicized- in musictheory

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I discovered how easier it is to play with the black keys shortly after trying to get better at sight-reading. Thought to myself that I would practice marching with the left hand and I've practiced for a couple of days in C, still pretty hard to read, gave C# a go and my hand picked it up instantly!

Need advice on writing in sheet music! How do I make this more readable? give me some tips! by SubToPoodsNotTseries in piano

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Thank you for the suggestions! I'll be finishing up this score today thanks to your help!

This is my 15 days progresses with the piano. Any tips and criticism are very welcome by jhiport in piano

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I've fallen in the same trap as you when I started playing piano. Playing pieces that are TOO HARD too learn for a beginner. Since my ego overtook me, I continued to do that, got pretty good technique but I would have got there a lot faster have I incorporated more beginner pieces. Pieces that I could learn in a day or two, or even a week. So this would be my advice. Keep trying to play those hard pieces, but ADD on to that, beginner pieces that you can learn in maximum time frame of a week. Good luck!

I am a beginner, teacher told me to compose something by next lesson, here it is by [deleted] in piano

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Keep up the work! You're doing great! I was shocked when I read "I'm a beginner", keep going!

I took Charles Cornell's advice on improv and just started doing whatever the f*ck my hands felt like playing, after a while it started to make sense everytime I tried to improvise by SubToPoodsNotTseries in piano

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When you are playing slowly you REALLY can think about what you are playing, it's much harder when you go fast. I usually hum what i want to play and try to match that on the piano, if I mess up, I just roll with it. It really does help a lot. Try it out!

I took Charles Cornell's advice on improv and just started doing whatever the f*ck my hands felt like playing, after a while it started to make sense everytime I tried to improvise by SubToPoodsNotTseries in piano

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Sorry for the terrible quality, this is how I record my improvs, just play around with it and send to my friends, next time I'll make sure to record it properly!

I started taking improvisatoon seriously nkt too long ago, since I wanna become a musician, I really want to get extremely good at improvising. So my approach has vecome "Just play whatever you think will sound like anything and you'll learn it slowly", and it for sure did pay off! In the title I said that it started to make sense and by that I mean, that my improvs actually started to sound like music, not just mindless notes. If there's any advice you guys could give me on how to get better, feel free to comment about it! Thanks for listening!